Archive for category: Pyglet


PyGameSF meetup Thursday October 8th 6pm @ 3rd floor Main San Francisco Public Library

4 October, 2009 (22:56) | Interesting, Meetup, Programming, Pygame, Pyglet, Pyton | By: Harry Tormey

The October PyGameSF meet up will be at the PALEY (not the STONG) conference room on the third floor of the main San Francisco public library beside civic center BART. The library closes at 8pm so we will reconvene to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.This month’s presentations are: Shannon -jj Behrens, How to [...]

PyGameSF meetup Wednesday September 23 6pm @ Main San Francisco Public Library

17 September, 2009 (22:35) | Interesting, Meetup, Programming, Pygame, Pyglet, Pyton, Talk | By: Harry Tormey

The September PyGameSF meet up will be at the STONG conference room on the first floor of the main San Francisco public library beside civic center BART. The library closes at 8pm so we will reconvene to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.This month’s presentations are: Brad Busse, Harry Tormey, Keith Nemitz: “If [...]

Dynamic visuals: Using simple easing and tweening algorithms to make movement look “good”

15 May, 2009 (10:22) | Games, Interesting, Programming, Pyglet, Pyton, actionscript | By: Harry Tormey

Currently I am reading selected chapters from Robert Penner’s book Programming Macromedia Flash MX. Contrary to what you might think I am not interested in learning flash. What sold me on the book was the free chapter on Roberts website which provides a whole bunch of algorithms for performing tweening, easing and other [...]

Pyweek 8 final release: Pestecide

2 May, 2009 (16:08) | Games, Programming, Pygame, Pyglet, Release | By: Harry Tormey

Hi All, just writing to say that my team are in the final stages of polishing our entry for pyweek 8. You can now download an .exe/.dmg or the source here. Below is an annotated final version screen shot explaing how to play:

Pyweek 8

30 April, 2009 (23:39) | Games, Programming, Pyglet, Pyton | By: Harry Tormey

I just thought I would give an update on how things are coming along with pyweek 8 . As I mentioned yesterday the team I am on for this years pyweek is called campdivisible, which apart from myself consists of Colin Bean and Brad Busse. In my last post, I offered up some early [...]

Pyweek 7/8

29 April, 2009 (14:37) | Games, Programming, Pyglet | By: Harry Tormey

Right now I am very busy with work and in my spare time competing in pyweek 8 . As you may or may not know pyweek is a competition where you, on your own or with a team, have one week to complete a game written from scratch in python. My team for this [...]

PyGameSF meetup Tuesday March 24th 10th 6pm @ Main San Francisco Public Library

18 March, 2009 (10:44) | Games, Meetup, Pygame, Pyglet, Pyton, Talk | By: Harry Tormey

This months PyGameSF meet up is at the STONG conference room on the first floor of the main San Francisco public library beside civic center BART. The library closes at 8pm so we will be reconviening to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.  This month’s presentations are: Casey Duncan:  Going Low-level, A peek under the [...]

An Interview with Alex Holkner

6 March, 2009 (20:41) | Games, Interview, Pygame, Pyglet, Pyton | By: Harry Tormey

Last month I interviewed both Alex Holkner the main author of Pyglet and Rene Dudfield a contributor to Pygame, you can listen to a recording of the interview with Alex here.  The interviews deal with their respective work on Pygame and Pyglet, some of the challenges they faced developing these libraries, what they are currently working on,  plans for the future and their experiences [...]