[casual_games] languages...

[Duncan Gough]

Hello Lionel,

I don't have any experience of .Net but I have written a couple of  
games in Python using Pygame:

http://www.suttree.com/code/pygames/

http://pygame.org/news.html

Development of Pygame has just picked up again, which is very  
encouraging. The biggest downside I found was that in using py2exe to  
create an installer, the whole Python interpreter gets bundled into  
the application, which made the file quite large.

On 5 Oct 2005, at 10:17, Lionel barret De Nazaris wrote:

> Hello all,
> I am to quite new myself to casual game programming. And I am  
> wondering if Python or .Net are valid alternatives to the common  
> Flash and Java ? The IGDA white paper name Python but does not give  
> any example of game made completely in Python, so I am wondering if  
> it's not wishful thinking (Python is an easy language to love).
> Apologies if I tread a very common ground.
>
> Thanks,
> Lionel
>
> Duncan Gough wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Jobe Makar's book is has lots of very good examples of several  
>> different types of games (puzzle, isometric) as well as plenty of  
>> solid code excerpts for collision detection, real-time chat and  
>> socket servers.
>>
>> The Flash Game Coders mailing list is generally quite quiet but  
>> there are plenty of very helpful people on there too:
>>
>> http://proalias.com/mailman/listinfo/flashgamecoders_proalias.com
>>
>> Finally, the flash paper that has already been recommended is not  
>> just worth reading, it's worth printing off and reading away form  
>> your computer:
>>
>> http://www.drizzle.com/~scottb/gdc/flash-paper.htm
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Duncan
>> -- 
>>
>> http://www.millionsofgames.com
>> http://www.suttree.com
>>
>> Personally, I'd get to grips with Flash first and then worry about  
>> Flash 8 later.
>> On 5 Oct 2005, at 01:27, Matthew Ford wrote:
>>
>>
>>> n00b alert!
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend a good intermediate-level book for making  
>>> games in Flash?
>>>
>>> I've programmed assembly and C in the wayback, and once worked  
>>> with similar mid-level development tools, so I don't need the  
>>> super-basics. I don't seek game design advice in the book. Help  
>>> for coding live online multiplayer games is a big plus.
>>>
>>> Overall I just seek a good resource to read on a plane to get up  
>>> to speed on Flash game creation.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help!
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