Has anyone produced anything with Pygame?

[ekianjo]

Just a simple question, as I'm curious how much "power" we can get out of a Pandora using Pygame/Python only.


Any example out there?

 

[diligentcircle]

I've abandoned it since there's plenty of better scrolling shooters out there already, but I got my "ITAD S.G." project working at IIRC 30 FPS @ 500 MHz:


http://boards.openpa...sg-early-alpha/


It's even faster when overclocking to 800 MHz, about 45 FPS, I think. It uses software rendering; I haven't tested to see if hardware rendering would be faster or slower.


I believe Rescue is also in Python, but I don't know the specifics of it.


EDIT: Just looked at using hardware acceleration in ITAD S.G. The difference in speed is negligible, but it seems it's slightly slower than software rendering.

 

[Farox]

Some of my port ....(well port is not the correct word ...maybe simple packaging is more correct).....are using python+pygame.


They all do run at stock cpu speed at decent framerate....


They are:


Node reviver http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=NodeReviver


Mortimer the Lepidopterist http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=lepidopterist.Farox


Stegavorto http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=stegavorto.Farox


plus im working on PyKaraoke....who also run pretty well

 

[Tempel]

I made The Lonely Tower. And I packaged BubbMan2. And helped a bit with Which Way Is Up and Sparks. I've heard that some of these run very slowly, but I have no Pandora for testing.

 

[clop]

My Rebirth entry (Wicket) was in Python/PyGame. Was running smoothly but wasn't really demanding. Whole screen scrolling was a bit tricky to get smooth.

 

[ekianjo]

Thanks for all your answers! I will take a look at the different projects you mentioned to get a better feeling as to what is technically possible with pygame