Python

[Dre]

So I'm still kinda new to the whole python thing and I was wondering if it had the ability to create fighting type games? What about pygames? What's it limits? And python can be put into ren'py right? I don't plan to make anything of the like but it would be nice to be able to.*Thinks of the possibilities*

[PyTom]

Okay, Python is a programming language, like many of the other programming languages out there. Python is a high-level, interpreted language, which means it's easier to write in than a language like C, but also a bit slower.

There are libraries that make it easier to write games in Python. Pygame is one of them... But realize that quite a bit of programming would go into making a fighting game from scratch.

Ren'Py is a Python/PyGame application that makes writing a certain class of games (visual novels and dating sims) easier. Ren'Py games use python in a number of ways... Python is used as a language for declaring things like images and characters. Python expressions are also used in the if and while statements, among others.

One feature I've been meaning to add to Ren'Py for a while now is the ability to allow arbitrary python code to shut down Ren'Py for a while and do its own thing, and then return to Ren'Py later. This would allow minigames to be included in a Ren'Py game, by sufficently skilled programmers. It's still on my list of things to do, but fairly low prority. (A rewrite of the sound system, to support archived sounds and multiple compressed sounds at once, will come first.)

[Dre]

Oh I see. So in between that shut down, will the scripting be pygames or python?(assuming they are somewhat to different things, I wouldn't know at this point.)

And speaking from a far past chat, what ever happen to the image library script for completing a game?

[PyTom]

During the shutdown, one could call pygame functions directly from python. I'm afraid that the question really isn't all that meaningful. Pygame is a library that is used from Python.

Image library script? Are you talking about archive_images.bat?

[Kikered]

I think Dre was referring to an unlockable gallery of sorts with bonus images and the like. If that's the case, then it's already included in the "extras" folder of the latest version of Ren'Py as "gallery.rpy."

[Dre]

Heh, I guess not.

Well about the image thing, I'm taking about something like this...

More appear the farther you get into the game, and so on.

Edit:Ohh.....it was already done? Cool!