https://github.com/xSmallDeadGuyx/SimpleAStar

Just wanted to post a quick heads-up about my cross-browser Javascript game dev library, jsGameSoup.

I think you will find it a very quick way to make a game and get it in front of players! For example, I made this demo in a few hours.

Have fun!

SfmlHandle(), line 40(currently) in this file. It is currently kinda hacked together so it doesn’t support scrolling or text-input (yet), but it’s better than nothing

I wasn’t sure what I have to do or if there is some type of time limit, but anyway here is a link to the library code.  It’s mostly a conversion of some old SDL stuff I liked to use.  I moved away from SDL lately though and have been using GLFW.

import os, pygame, random, math, pgu
from pygame.locals import *
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800,480))
timer = 0
seconds = 0
minutes = 0
timertext = str(minutes) + “:” + str(seconds)
background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
background = background.convert()
background.fill((250, 250, 250))
font = pygame.font.Font(None, 500)
text = font.render(timertext, 1, (10, 10, 10))
background.blit(text,(0,0))
screen.blit(background, (0,0))

quit = 0
while not quit:
for e in pygame.event.get():
if e.type is QUIT: quit = 1
if e.type is KEYDOWN and e.key == K_ESCAPE: quit = 1
background.fill((250, 250, 250))
text = font.render(timertext, 1, (10, 10, 10))
background.blit(text,(0,0))
screen.blit(background, (0, 0))
pygame.display.flip()
clock.tick(60)
timer = timer + 1
if timer == 60:
seconds = seconds + 1
timer = 0
if seconds == 60:
minutes = minutes + 1
seconds = 0
if seconds <= 9:
timertext = str(minutes) + “:” + “0″ + str(seconds)
else:
timertext = str(minutes) + “:” + str(seconds)

Feature list and download.

Long story short, Gosu is a 2D game development library for Ruby and C++. I guess the C++ version is a bit too heavy to learn until Friday *and* actually use, though. The Ruby version gets you up and running quickly.

Pro (compared to your generic SDL wrapper): *Very* fast graphics with rotations and all that, because the library was designed to use OpenGL; an API which tries not to get in your creativity’s way; examples on how to integrate it with ImageMagick and the Chipmunk physics library; serious OS X support.
Contra: Linux port misses gamepad support; can’t handle too complex text input well.

If you would like to give it a try, the library can be found at http://code.google.com/p/gosu.

svn://www.imitationpickles.org/pug/trunk

The gui API is about the same as pgu, so if you wanted to use it, you probably could. It’s lots better

Other than that, I’ll be using pygame and python as per usual. I’ll also be using pyplus + swig in the event that I need to write any C extensions.

Update: check out demo2.py – for low-CPU updates and Joystick support!

My “Custom” Library

It’s a collection of header files and code, commonly found in my more recent prototypes. C++.

• A vector math/matrix library, plus some other math tools. Partially documented!
• A set of functions for drawing circles, lines, and rectangles with Allegro, transformed by a matrix.
• A collection of string functions to compliment STL String. Mostly for filename manipulations (get the base name, directory only, etc).
• Class building tools (including the “useful” part of Boost)
• FileIO with Compression (LZMA, BZIP, ZLIB)

And that’s that.