https://github.com/pinobatch/wrecking-ball-boy

A python has no legs. Neither does Podge.
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A python has no legs. Neither does Podge.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pinobatch/wrecking-ball-boy
• Owner: pinobatch
• Created: 2018-06-07T21:22:49.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-06T21:20:56.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-10-06T22:27:35.793Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 121 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGES.txt

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Wrecking Ball Boy

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> How do you like to go up in a swing,  

> Up in the air so blue?  

> Oh, I do not think it the pleasantest thing  

> Ever a child can do!

Robert Louis Stevenson, ["The Swing"][1], _A Child's Garden of Verses_ (1885)

This is a prototype using Pygame of a puzzle platformer that I plan to port to the NES once it's done. It stars a character who compensates for his lack of lower limbs by carrying a grappling hook and using it to swing from whatever object is above him.

Installation

------------

To prepare, install Python 3.6 and Pygame. Under Windows, for

example, once you have installed Python, you can install Pygame with

the following commands at a command prompt:

    py -m pip install --upgrade pip

    py -m pip install pygame

Then run the file `wbb.py`.

Full usage instructions are in `how.html`.

Why SDL 1.2?

------------

Pygame uses SDL 1.2.  When exporting a replay as a video, the game

uses `pygame.image.tostring()` to capture the video to an RGB byte

string and then feed it to FFmpeg.  (See `enlarger.py`.)  I know of

two SDL 2-based replacements for Pygame, neither of which has any

counterpart to `pygame.image.tostring()`

[PySDL2 docs][1] state:

> tostring(): No equivalent yet

The README for the Ren'Py project's [pygame_sdl2][2] states:

> Current omissions include:  

> APIs that expose pygame data as buffers or arrays.

License choice is pending.

[1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Swing

[3]: https://pysdl2.readthedocs.io/en/rel_0_9_6/tutorial/pygamers.html#pygame-image

[4]: https://github.com/renpy/pygame_sdl2