Comments on: Transcript 1 – Making a Barebones Pygame Program

By: Don Ramsey

Don Ramsey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:55:50 +0000

Maybe you can help. I just started learning Python. I know virtually nothing about developing games. I,m a chocolate maker who designed his own webpages. Anyway,I downloaded the current Pygames. What I got was Pygames 1.8 “Documents and Examples” to go with my Python2.5. When I try to open the Docs and Examples in Pygame, all I get is the black screen appearing for a second. I can’t “import” anything and forget “modules” – always comes back as error. I know this is a dumb question, but you gotta start learning somewhere. I’m working through “Python Programming” second edition, but even the enclosed CD (which is out of date) didn’t help with Pygame and Livewires. Maybe it’s too complicated for a dummy.Anxious to try your tutorial. Thanks. Don

By: jackthechemist

jackthechemist — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:57:32 +0000

Really enjoyed your work.
Trying to learn python in my spare time and thought it would be neat to write some games. This document has been most helpful and I look forward to the next part!
(I don’t have internet at my new house so I copied and printed the transcript :p )

By: YiannisValassakis

YiannisValassakis — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:52:42 +0000

Thank you for the tutorials. They are invaluable for a starting game developer here…trying to work on a special needs children game with PyGame. Also, transcripts are great because one of my connections are 56K !

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:11:01 +0000

I haven’t replied to people in a very long time, and for this I apologize. Thank you so much to everyone for visiting the site and leaving valuable feedback.

Horst: Thank you so much for pointing out the errors in the way the code is presented on the web page. This is something I have to fix soon!

Alex: Thank you for the encouragement! I hope to come up with more screencasts soon.

Again, thank you so much!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:38:34 +0000

I recently left a comment but on the 2nd screencast page, probably the wrong place for it. Let me say, I think you are doing an excellent job here, and I love these screencasts! Are you making the fourth one soon? Can’t wait for it!

-Alex

By: Horst JENS

Horst JENS — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:51:05 +0000

Hi, this video transcripts are really cool.
I found a ‘bug’ in this html-site:
the line:
if __name__ == ‘__main__’: main()
should be:
if __name__ == ‘__main__’: main()

If using the the version with the backwards ticks (´ ) i got an encoding error (using drpython).

please keep up the good work !
-Horst