PyWeek - Game Development Resources (updated 2013-03-25)
The following are resources you might find useful in developing games:PyWeek Help
How to be Successful at PyWeek and some Game Development Tips & Tricks
How to fail at PyWeek (slides)
PyGame wiki chock full of tutorials, game resources, distribution advice and more.
Big List of Indie Resources
Big List of Game Design
Royalty free music by inkaudio
Amit’s Game Programming Information contains a huge resource on game design and implementation
Libraries: pygame (pgu), pyglet (cocos2d), Kivy, pysfml, Albow, pymunk
On frame rates, vsync and gameplay simulation.
Great video about good game design as illustrated by the Mega Man series (caution: contains swearing)
Pyxeledit is a pixel art, tile map, tile set and sprite sheet editor of awesomeness. It's inspired by Pixothello but is improved in many ways (not the least of which is it's cross-platform.)
Pixen is a really nice pixel art app for OS X but it doesn't have the same awesome tileset creation mode as Pyxeledit.
Here's a list of art asset creation tools I just found in my wandering :-)
If you have anything you think should be added to this list, please let me know in a comment!
When you're ready to promote your game, here's some tips on making an entertaining and engaging video game trailer.
If you have anything you think should be added to this list, please let me know in a comment!
When you're ready to promote your game, here's some tips on making an entertaining and engaging video game trailer.
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richard on 2011/08/10 03:37
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By Tee on 2011/08/13 00:20:
It's hard not to add this awesome link.Pixel Prospector's Indie Resources
By superjoe on 2011/08/23 14:23:
Email I got:Hi
By richard on 2011/11/04 01:23:
Added a link to a great video about good game design as illustrated by the Mega Man series (contains swearing.)By Cosmologicon on 2012/04/09 19:34:
Along the lines of "how to succeed/fail at Pyweek", one great resource is postmortem posts on this discussion board. You can find a bunch with a search for "postmortem", or if you find a game you like, look through its diary entries for a postmortem.By Willyfrog on 2012/05/04 22:35:
If you liked pixotello, you'll probably like "http://danikgames.com/stuff/pyxeledit/"By richard on 2012/05/05 00:05:
Oh, Willyfrog, you just made my day! :-)By richard on 2012/05/25 01:24:
Nice writeup of various approaches to 2D platformer games.By richard on 2012/05/29 03:16:
"Juice It Or Lose It" - an awesome presentation about making games more fun with very simple ideas.By richard on 2012/05/30 01:49:
"Designing a retro pixel-art tile-set" looks like a great tutorial.By richard on 2012/07/31 00:10:
Added Al Sweigert's Video Game Mechanics Mixer.By richard on 2012/07/31 00:16:
Also added link to the awesome Pyxeledit which replaces Pixothello.By john on 2012/09/14 07:01:
I've found Amitp's website particularly interesting myself, it gives plenty of advice on topics such as pathfinding and procedurally landscape generation amongst others.http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html
By richard on 2012/09/17 05:12:
Added, thanks john!By Strings on 2012/09/22 16:10:
Better late than never:http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134273/evaluating_game_mechanics_for_depth.php?print=1
This article is probably one of the most useful I've ever read and is great for evaluating whether a game idea is good or not in advance.
And if you're interested in game development or the industry around it, you need to watch all of this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/show/extra-credits
Just all of it.
By Neutron01 on 2013/03/24 17:12:
Thanks guys, I was searching fro these types of resources.By richard on 2013/03/25 02:48:
Added a link to Kivy.