Archive for month: May, 2009

Slides from May 21st meet up

29 May, 2009 (02:07) | Games, Meetup, Recordings | By: Harry Tormey

The slides from Jared Sohn’s presentation on flocking at the May PyGameSF meet up are now available here. I will post a link to the recording of the talk once I get round to converting and editing it.

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 [...]

PyGameSF meetup Thursday May 21st 6pm @ Main San Francisco Public Library

13 May, 2009 (22:23) | Games, Meetup, Programming, Talk | By: Harry Tormey

The May 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 reconvien to frjtz on hayes street for dinner/drinks afterwords.This month’s presentations are: Jared Sohn: All About My Flocking Project. This talk [...]

Chris Crawford on game design

12 May, 2009 (23:44) | Interesting, Programming, Review | By: Harry Tormey

Considering I run a meetup with the word game in the title and I have been developing a lot of the aforementioned recently I decided to do some reading on the topic. As I think I have a clear idea of what I need to do to improve my technical chops I decided to [...]

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: