PPB is a GUI and command-line tool for automating the process of packaging a pygame-based project into a working binary. For now it targets Windows, but the underlying code will ultimately target Macs with py2app.
There have been many occasions where, in looking around on the Internet for a good, free game leaves me feeling…
After helping another fellow Python programmer with some help packaging their game (see comments on this post), I dove back into Star Merchant 2. I’ll be honest and say that I haven’t been giving it the love that it deserves. So tonight was spent working on a feature that expands on something found in the original.
Tetris has dominated my casual game playing. But a few years ago I discovered Puyo Puyo, an interesting spin on the falling-block puzzle subgenre.
Sony CEO Howard Stringer gave a keynote speech at Nikkei Electronics Asia that for the most part sounded like a lament about losing their chance to beat Apple to the punch in the digital music area. But that’s not what really got my attention.
When one wants to implement their own “scorched Earth” policy these days, the costs can be off-putting to say the…
Although every game I’ve profiled so far has been open source, this one is not. However, it is available for free. That doesn’t make it any less of a fun game to play, and truthfully most people won’t care if the source code is available. With that said, I give you: Fate By Numbers.
Growing up with a Nintendo meant that, invariably, one would play Super Mario Brothers and all of its successors. With it being the most successful video game franchise in history, it’s hard to argue its popularity. Even in this day of fully immersive 3D game environments, there are many who yearn for a taste of that time gone by, with a bit of a modern makeover. And that brings us to Secret Maryo Chronicles.
The story of Dapple is long from dead. Anybody that has the cajones to do what he did and take the kind of heat he did shows a strong determination to never give up. With the lens of time looking over at Owen’s rather honest posts about his numbers, his game is seeing some moderate success now in the AppStore. Certainly some of the attention he garnered from his previous posts about his game’s sales, coupled with a few high-profile reviews online helped to boost sales.
