What I've been working on

[Antoine]

Hi all

I've just posted a video of my in-development game project: here.

It is a dungeon adventure game written for my Samsung Galaxy phone.

You control a party of up to six characters - in this case, two warriors, a rogue, two wizards (one powerful and the other subtle) and a healer.

As you progress through the dungeon, you are attacked by a variety of horrible monsters. You need to counter their special attacks, launch your own special attacks and keep an eye on your characters' health and energy levels.

There are over 60 types of monster. And there are about 100 character abilities (so far), so you can customise your party to work together in a lot of different ways.

The beautiful tile art is, of course, the work of Shockbolt. He has licenced his tileset for use in this project (on a strictly non profit basis). I am sorry it looks so blurry over Youtube: it looks pretty good on the phone.

It has been interesting getting used to coding on the phone. I am using Python with pygame and pgs4a, which is a nice environment although it doesn't do everything I want it to by a long chalk. The gameplay is designed to suit the phone hardware - i.e. a touchscreen about 2" x 4". It is a challenge to present a lot of information on such a small screen. The game is also designed to be played in short bursts as I would not expect to sit down and play phone games for a half hour or more...

Enjoy
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P.S. I cheated and recorded the screencast on my PC, which is why you can see the mouse pointer. It seemed easier...

[debo]

Holy crap I had no idea you could use pygame for mobile stuff!!!

[Derakon]

I'm curious how well Python/Pygame et al work for a mobile device; speed, battery life, etc. are more relevant on such constrained hardware, and it'll be important if/when Pyrel makes it that far...

[Antoine]

Originally Posted by debo

Holy crap I had no idea you could use pygame for mobile stuff!!!

pgs4a is the key.

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[Antoine]

its not blazingly fast , not a big problem for me but might be for you.

what does pyrel do for graphics? does it use some kind of multiplatform library?

[Derakon]

Pyrel currently has three different available frontends: the wxPython-based system I put together (since wx is what I'm familiar with from work), the PyQT4 system that, uh, IIRC mtadd and myshkin put together, and a console-based system whose author I forget. Sorry!

PyQT4 and wxPython are both cross-platform; while the rendering isn't identical on different platforms, for the way we're using them (just a canvas that we draw pixels to using the libraries' drawing functions), there's no real difference. Each of them (including the console version) uses the same logic for deciding what characters and colors to draw, but has library-specific calls for doing the actual rendering.

Presumably eventually we'll ditch either the wxPython or PyQT4 frontends and unify, since it doesn't make much sense to have two separate window-based systems that otherwise behave identically.

[Antoine]

Originally Posted by Derakon

Pyrel currently has three different available frontends: the wxPython-based system I put together (since wx is what I'm familiar with from work), the PyQT4 system that, uh, IIRC mtadd and myshkin put together, and a console-based system whose author I forget. Sorry!

PyQT4 and wxPython are both cross-platform; while the rendering isn't identical on different platforms, for the way we're using them (just a canvas that we draw pixels to using the libraries' drawing functions), there's no real difference. Each of them (including the console version) uses the same logic for deciding what characters and colors to draw, but has library-specific calls for doing the actual rendering.

Presumably eventually we'll ditch either the wxPython or PyQT4 frontends and unify, since it doesn't make much sense to have two separate window-based systems that otherwise behave identically.

Well, I dont know to what extent any of those might port to android

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[Magnate]

Originally Posted by Derakon

Pyrel currently has three different available frontends: the wxPython-based system I put together (since wx is what I'm familiar with from work), the PyQT4 system that, uh, IIRC mtadd and myshkin put together, and a console-based system whose author I forget. Sorry!

JFTR mtadd wrote the curses frontend and noz wrote the QT frontend.

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by Magnate

JFTR mtadd wrote the curses frontend and noz wrote the QT frontend.

D'oh, thanks for the correction! Sorry guys for getting the attributions wrong!

[Antoine]

Originally Posted by Antoine

Hi all

I've just posted a video of my in-development game project: here.

It is a dungeon adventure game written for my Samsung Galaxy phone.

You control a party of up to six charactrs - in this case, two warriors, a rogue, two wizards (one powerful and the other subtle) and a healer.

The beautiful tile art is, of course, the work of Shockbolt. He has licenced his tileset for use in this project (on a strictly non profit basis). I am sorry it looks so blurry over Youtube: it looks pretty good on the phone.

It has been interesting getting used to coding on the phone. I am using Python with pygame and pgs4a, which is a nice environment although it doesn't do everything I want it to by a long chalk.

Just getting into this project again after a hiatus.

Might anyone be interested in collaborating? It would be good to have someone to work with.

Would suit someone who is interested in multicharacter dungeon games, Python or smartphone programming.

Message me or reply here if interested...
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