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money with gamejams

Posted on 2013-05-02 by

(not python related) I have seen this guy participating in a game jam in Vienna’s Metalab. He is good. His Forum posting is very interesting: He will auction off his next -not yet written- game jam entry (on GiGJam). If … Continue reading →

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Think Python

Posted on 2013-01-22 by

Good news, everyone: there is a nice, creative-commons licensed ( cc-by-nc ) book about python, even with a python3 version: Think Python: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/. From the author of “How to think like a computer scientist”, Allen B. Downey. He initially wrote … Continue reading →

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free python3 book

Posted on 2013-01-03 by

Another free python3 tutorial book is online: http://beastie.cs.ua.edu/cs150/book/index.html

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2012 in review

Posted on 2012-12-31 by

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,400 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading →

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installing pygame on python3.x

Posted on 2012-11-27 by

nice useful blogposting (using Linux): http://pythonfun.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/installing-pygame-with-python-3-2-on-ubuntu-11-04/

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pycrawl on hold

Posted on 2012-09-07 by

The pycrawl project (part of ThePythonGameBook project) is on hold for now, as i will not find much time for it for the rest of this month. Things may hopefully change next month. The reason i have no time is … Continue reading →

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itemdemo

Posted on 2012-08-25 by

The pycrawl_itemdemo.py ( part of my ThePythonGameBook project ) is finally working. I re-wrote my complete class structure and i will have to apply those changes to the previous walkdemo and monsterdemo some time in the future. In the itemdemo, … Continue reading →

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pycrawl_itemdemo not done yet

Posted on 2012-08-20 by

just a short update: I work on pycrawl_itemdemo but it is not done yet. While the demo is working in parts ( you can correctly inspect stashes of many items, you can pick up items etc. ) i keep rewriting … Continue reading →

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pycrawl_monsterdemo

Posted on 2012-08-14 by

On my work for an python rogue-like game pycrawl ( part of my ThePythonGameBook project ) i managed to create another workable demo: see it on githup: pycrawl-monsterdemo.py The monsterdemo, while improving the code for the level class, focus on … Continue reading →

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pycrawl_walkdemo

Posted on 2012-08-13 by

progress at the pycrawl project (pycrawl is part of my ThePythonGameBook project): the little ( ugly ) pycrawl_walkdemo.py works fine now. The player ( an @ ) can be moved around and he does not walk through walls anymore. It’s … Continue reading →

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