Re: [tlug] Pygame ("SDL for Python weenies") example

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 01/08/06, Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com> wrote:

> In the SDL is not just for C++ geeks category:
> There was recently a PyWeek[1] programming challenge[2] using Pygame
> [3], a Python library built atop SDL.  You can download the
> submissions, including this one[4] which seems a fairly gentle
> introduction to drawing with Pygame.

A guy I knew back in uni used PyGame to write a Dance Dance Revolution
clone (which used to be called PyDDR, but got renamed to the slightly
less cool but much less likely to draw a Konami lawsuit "PyDance"[1]).
This was at least four years ago now, so PyGame has been a serious
game dev framework for at least that long.

SDL bindings for other popular languages include:

C#: http://cs-sdl.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page
Java: http://sdljava.sourceforge.net/
Common LISP: http://cl-sdl.sourceforge.net/
Obj C (Apple hackers, douzo): http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sdlobjc/
Perl: http://sdl.perl.org/
PHP (yeah, right): http://phpsdl.sourceforge.net/
Ruby: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-sdl/

And just for fun:

Ada (ha ha, told ya!): http://sourceforge.net/projects/adasdl/
Pascal (sorry, no FORTRAN): http://sdl4fp.sourceforge.net/
Smalltalk (beware of cookies): http://members.lycos.co.uk/oxidized/SDLSmalltalk/

There is a more complete list at:

http://www.libsdl.org/languages.php

Cheers,
Josh

[1] http://icculus.org/pyddr/