Pysconian[WIP]

jonne · March 30, 2019, 8:11pm

Python + Bosconian = Pysconian

Working on graphics at the moment

torbuntu · March 30, 2019, 9:12pm

I love it!! I played a version of this on a tv plug and play for hours.

jonne · March 30, 2019, 9:27pm

I am going to try to make it as faithful as possible

EDIT: all the gfx are actually redrawn by hand, the difference in resolution forces me to do so

torbuntu · March 30, 2019, 9:27pm

That is so exciting oh my gosh too good.

jonne · April 12, 2019, 8:33pm

Coding with Python is so easy

pysconian

torbuntu · April 12, 2019, 8:36pm

OH MY GOSH!! This looks SO good!

Hanski · April 12, 2019, 8:44pm

Looks absolutely great!
Btw. I am currently implementing fast vertical or horizontal mirrored blit in upygame API. That will save some ROM & drawing effort

jonne · April 12, 2019, 9:01pm

Great!

Main problem is that I’m running out of RAM. 70 mines, 6 bases with 6 pods, 20 projectiles, all gameobjects with x,y,wx,wy,w,h,explosion,visibility,status and so on

I may have to de-objectify my code into global bytearrays to fit in enemies and asteroids

Hanski · April 12, 2019, 9:16pm

Yeah, that is what I have also done with bullets in Pokitron. No objects, but just a list of coordinates.

jonne · April 13, 2019, 10:35am

I am now coding “the proper way” with modules and classes (no globals), and I am enjoying Python even more.

Python is even better with OOP

torbuntu · April 13, 2019, 11:18am

I still need to fully learn that for python.

Hanski · April 13, 2019, 11:37am

There are many examples of Python classes and modules in the competition entries.

torbuntu · April 13, 2019, 12:03pm

I’ve skimmed a few of them early on. The different styles everyone uses is so cool

jonne · April 13, 2019, 12:34pm

FYI I grabbed a lot of code from Jetpack by @bl_ackrain. Amazingly, he says its his first Python prog and made in 3 days

spinal · April 13, 2019, 2:32pm

I can believe it, python seems very familiar, it reminds me a lot of old BASIC.

Hanski · April 13, 2019, 2:56pm

It would be interesting to know how many used Python the first time in competition.

spinal · April 13, 2019, 4:33pm

Not only that, how many people don’t own Pokitto’s.

But yeah, this was my first attempt an anything in python.

sbmrgd · April 13, 2019, 6:03pm

For me too

Pharap · April 14, 2019, 1:53am

Everything is better with OOP.

jonne · April 15, 2019, 10:40pm

With no bytearrays, I was able to get up from 70 to 135 mines by optimizing the code.

The trick was simple. If you pass an object to a function, and you extend that object inside that function, the original instance expands. It is not a copy, it is a reference.

Replacing expanded attributes with local variables and the instances stayed small = twice the amount of mines.