PyStroke: Pre-alpha at last!
It’s been a long time coming, but I finally got my game engine properly online in a version controlled, browsable form. Say hello to PyStroke v0.02!
This isn’t an amazing success, or even much of a step forward, in terms of programming. I haven’t worked much on it since Ludum Dare, thanks to various assignments, including writing a twenty-page report on PyStroke and assorted research as part of my Final Year Project. However, I have met some nice people through Reddit and Twitter who are interested in reading the code and giving it a try. As well as that, I wanted to have a build online by Christmas. Unfortunately that wasn’t possible, given the aforementioned assignments taking up so much time, but less than two weeks later isn’t too bad, I don’t think. And technically, my Ludum Dare game included a build of the engine more than a week before Christmas, it just wasn’t very readable. So overall, I think I succeeded.
The code isn’t exactly pretty, but it is very, very much a work in progress – pre-alpha is even being a tad generous. I have used it to create games, but I don’t necessarily think it follows that someone else will be able to. In the next week, I hope to knock together an extremely simple game and write a little tutorial on how the engine is used, as I see it.
There is one semantic bug that isn’t going to go away for a little while – rotation of the ‘vex’ (or vector sprites) uses a slightly incorrect call to do some of its calculation. The rotation works, but under the hood it isn’t strictly right. I’ll need to give that some time as a priority in the coming days.
Anyway, I’m glad to have it finally out there! Feels good. Expect to hear more about it as January (and the year) continues.
Posted on 5 January, 2013, in Blatant self-indulgence, Final Year Project, Game Development, Links, Open Source, PyStroke. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
Keep it up! When you fixed the vex bug you should release a small example demo of each feature, like how to render something, how to move etc :)
Good idea. Hm, maybe that would be more useful than the tutorial I have planned. Perhaps I should do both.
Reddit is a fantastic community. I’m happy I’ve found your blog – I haven’t worked with pygame for several months though.