I think eve-online is written in stackless python, they make quite a
dealy about it on their site www.eve-online.com although I cant find the
page myself right now due to filters in the way.
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[mailto:tutor-bounces (AT) python (DOT) org] Behalf Kent Johnson
Sent: 01 2006 22:21
Cc: tutor (AT) python (DOT) org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help
wesley chun wrote:
>I am trying to learn a programming language good for
programming entire
>games (core functions too)
check out the PyGame engine:
http://pygame.org
download the games written on top of PyGame that appear to match the
functionality you're looking for. if you learn Python at the same
time, tweaking those games and changing their functionality
will help
you learn it even faster.
You should also look at the PyGame Challenge web site:
http://www.pyweek.org/
I'm not a game writer either but I have a few thoughtsmy
impression
is that Python and PyGame are a good foundation for hobbyist
games. The
PyGame and PyWeek games are good examples. I doubt that you
could write
a commercial quality game like Final Fantasy using just these tools
though. Commercial games have highly optimized game engines. Some of
them use Python as scripting engines for high-level game
play; I doubt
that any commercial games use Python for their core game engine.
the other hand, you are a long way from being able to write Final
Fantasy. You need to start small and develop your skills. Python and
PyGame should be well suited for this.
You might want to read this:
http://tinyurl.com/hc6xc
which says in part, "Starcraft, Everquest and Quake were all made by
teams of professionals who had budgets usually million dollar
plus. More
importantly though, all of these games were made by people
with a lot of
experience at making games. They did not just decide to make
games and
turned out mega-hit games, they started out small and worked
their way
up. This is the point that anyone who is interested in
getting into game
development needs to understand and repeat, repeat, repeat until it
becomes such a part of your mindset that you couldn't possibly
understand life without this self evident, universal truth."
and here are more links:
~amitp/gameprog.html
I found these all by Googling "game programming language"; there are
many more interesting links there.
Good luck,
Kent
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Matthew Warren wrote:
I think eve-online is written in stackless python, they make quite a
dealy about it on their site www.eve-online.com although I cant find the
page myself right now due to filters in the way.

Yes, I think you're right that they use stackless. CCP Games was a
sponsor of the "Need for Speed" Python sprint in Rekjavik last summer
and Christian Tismer, creator of stackless, was a participant.

Kent

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