Allowed libraries

bitbucket on 2006/03/10 17:30 of The Usual Kabuki

Is the libraries list definitive? There are a few other game libraries  I've seen on pygame that might be useful and not violate the "from scratch" directive too much. In particular, the AStar   library might be useful to include. I've written my own version of this in the past, and I'm willing to do it again, but using it for pathfinding is so common, it kind of feels like we should add it. Plus, it leaves a lot of the fitness and spatial functions up to the implementor, so it doesn't do a whole lot of work for you, just takes out the tedious generic steps. Thoughts?

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richard on 2006/03/10 21:11:

The list in the rules page does specifically say "This list of links is not comprehensive, though we would like it to be!"

As long as a library conforms to the guidelines (ie. it's released so other entrants may reasonably use it, and it's not a game engine) then it'll be OK to use.

bitbucket on 2006/03/10 21:27:

Cool. Yeah, I saw that on the page. I just wanted to give a shout out about a couple of libraries that would hopefully save people time, as well as make sure that a library like AStar that gets more into the game logic than some of the others listed still qualifies. Anyway, thanks for the confirmation!