Pygame Programmers!

Posted by johnfn (twitter: @thedayturns)

August 22nd, 2011 2:47 pm

How the heck are the pygame users among us planning to port your game to all platforms?

 

I’ve been trying with py2exe and py2app and having absolutely no luck; I’ve been seeing crashes everywhere. Any tips?

Tags: oh god the pain, port, porting, pygame

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2 Responses to “Pygame Programmers!”

1. ointment says:

   August 22, 2011 at 2:50 pm

   I know your pain. Mine crashed unexplainably on everyone else’s computer but worked fine on mine when I first submitted. Used py2exe to compile it.

   The reason, for me, turned out to be a missing font. You need to include all non-standard ones with the download and tell your users to install them before playing. Py2exe doesn’t package them with the game, and gives a rather cryptic segmentation fault without them.

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   • johnfn says:

     August 22, 2011 at 4:18 pm

     Whoa, I was having that problem too. Will definitely check in to it – thanks!

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