RE: [pygame] Can the pygame infrastructure be used for non-graphical text-mode games?

[<pjfarley3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for those links, it does look very interesting for what I have in mind.

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx <owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx> On
> Behalf Of Nicholas H.Tollervey
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:02 PM
> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [pygame] Can the pygame infrastructure be used for non-graphical
> text-mode games?
> 
> The wonderful Dan Pope (lordmauve), who also runs PyWeek, wrote this funky
> project that sounds exactly like what you're looking for:
> 
> https://github.com/lordmauve/adventurelib
> 
> Documentation here:
> 
> https://adventurelib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
> 
> Dan is a developer I have a huge amount of respect for (he's also a buddy too),
> and I believe the quality of his code will be good, the documentation
> comprehensive and he'd be open to feedback, bug reports and suggestions.
> 
> For what it's worth, I'm currently writing a simple MUD engine in Python (a
> multi-user text based adventure game), which I'll be presenting at EuroPython in
> just over a month
> (https://ep2020.europython.eu/talks/AGaSaW8-how-to-run-a-corridor-track-in-
> a-remote-conference-with-python/)
> 
> Best of luck.
> 
> On 18/06/2020 01:40, pjfarley3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > A lot of the old "adventure" games and similar game efforts from the
> > very early days of computing were strictly text-mode games with no
> > graphics used (or needed) at all.
> >
> > The old code base for such games wasn't always very well organized or
> > designed, they just (mostly) worked.  I had a thought that updating
> > such a game's design and structure with more modern design principles
> > and supporting architecture would be an interesting exercise.
> >
> > Is it possible to use the pygame infrastructure to implement
> > text-mode-only games?  Without having to pick window sizes and
> > resolutions and set fonts and font sizes, etc., etc., on a graphical surface?
> >
> > IOW, can the pygame keyboard input and screen output processes be
> > replaced with simple python raw_input() and print() calls?
> >
> > Or am I just looking at the wrong library to use for such games?
> >
> > TIA for your advice and opinion.
> >
> > Peter
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