https://github.com/rswinkle/inventwithpython_pysdl2

Porting all the code/games from Al Sweigart's pygame book to use PySDL2
https://github.com/rswinkle/inventwithpython_pysdl2

game-development games pygame pysdl2

Last synced: about 1 month ago
JSON representation

Porting all the code/games from Al Sweigart's pygame book to use PySDL2

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rswinkle/inventwithpython_pysdl2
• Owner: rswinkle
• License: other
• Created: 2016-02-02T23:29:56.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-07-13T21:49:08.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-26T21:05:41.722Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: game-development, games, pygame, pysdl2
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 10.6 MB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

        
Invent With Python ported to PySDL2

===================================

[Download](https://github.com/rswinkle/inventwithpython_pysdl2)

This is a project aiming to port all the code/games from the book

["Making Games with Python & Pygame"](http://inventwithpython.com/pygame/chapters/) by Al Sweigart

from pygame to PySDL2.

## Why?

Well, I'm mostly a C/C++ programmer and I use SDL2 for my games/demos and

I wanted to be able to prototype in python with a library that'd make

it very easy to go from that to C.  PySDL2 does have some

great convenience classes/API's in the sdl2.ext, but it's not hard to look

into the source and see what they're actually doing.  In addition it has

the sdl2 module, which is a straight 1:1 wrapper of SDL2, as well as

1:1 wrappers of SDL2 libraries like SDL2_mixer, SDL2_gfx and SDL2_ttf.

This design also makes using PySDL2 a great way to learn the SDL2

API and related libraries in general.

Another advantage of PySDL2 is that it's public domain/CC0/zlib instead of LGPL.

Look [here](https://pysdl2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial/pygamers.html)

for more details on the differences between Pygame and PySDL2

## Status

I've ported 10 of the projects, though the first 4 hardly count being so simple, or

in the case of tetromino for idiots, only a few lines different from tetromino.

They all (should) work with python 2.7 and python 3.x though I think I may drop

python 2 in the future.  They're mostly straight ports not redesigns/reimplementations,

so it's easy to compare/learn (I've left all the pygame versions in the repo).  In other

words, I keep as much of his functions/code structure as possible.  I have

about 7 more games to go and various improvements in the first half and general maintenance.

One other thing to note.  I am using a local copy of PySDL2 with 1 change, modifying

SpriteRenderer.render() behavior.  I've changed it so that it does *not* call

SDL_RenderPresent/SDL_UpdateWindowSurface. I've created an [issue](https://bitbucket.org/marcusva/py-sdl2/issues/91/spriterenderer-render-behavior-change) to

discuss the design/behavior of that function and why it should change,

but even if the change is merged I'll keep a local copy in the repo for

convenience and because I'll change/add other minor things.

## License

All original content/code is copyrighted by Al Sweigart and as you can see

at the top of his py files, is BSD licensed.  All my code is public domain,

fallback to MIT/BSD.  I may change/expand/formalize the fallback later but

take it, do whatever you want with it, is the gist if public domain doesn't

work obviously.

### References/Sources

[http://inventwithpython.com/pygame/chapters/](http://inventwithpython.com/pygame/chapters/)

[https://bitbucket.org/marcusva/py-sdl2/overview](https://bitbucket.org/marcusva/py-sdl2/overview)

[https://pysdl2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#](https://pysdl2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#)