Building a commercial-like game using only python
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Hi guys.
Do you think I can build a commercial game using only python as porgramming language?? It could be too slow??
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Uh hum... does python have graphics support? The only text-based games that I know of that will sell now-a-days are hacking games.
Well, you are thinking in the right direction. You don''t have to use just C to write your games. In fact, the Unix philosophy is set against this. That''s how Python and numerous other scripting languages were born!
I would write the executable in C. Period. This is the program that loads up the scripts and data. Then it tells Python (the interpreter) to "do that voodoo that you do (to my scripts)."
Any process that''s very "heavy" (graphics, streaming, process control...) should not be written in Python in the final build. Those need to be hard-coded. (And the Unix philosophy also encourages you to use existing libraries of satisfying quality, but do help other dev''ers where you can.)
Use python for other things, especially things in your game. That way, game objects can be represented by scripts that are turned on and off.
Golden Rule: Use common sense.
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Benjamin Heath
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I would write the executable in C. Period. This is the program that loads up the scripts and data. Then it tells Python (the interpreter) to "do that voodoo that you do (to my scripts)."
Any process that''s very "heavy" (graphics, streaming, process control...) should not be written in Python in the final build. Those need to be hard-coded. (And the Unix philosophy also encourages you to use existing libraries of satisfying quality, but do help other dev''ers where you can.)
Use python for other things, especially things in your game. That way, game objects can be represented by scripts that are turned on and off.
Golden Rule: Use common sense.
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Benjamin Heath
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quote:Do you think I can build a commercial game using only python as porgramming language?? It could be too slow??
It depends on what you mean by commercial. If you mean Quake 4, then no. But you can write smaller games that run fine written in Python using Pygame (http://pygame.org/)
quote:Original post by dist0rted
Uh hum... does python have graphics support? The only text-based games that I know of that will sell now-a-days are hacking games.
Yes. http://pygame.org/
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