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According to market research firm NPD, the video game market continues to see explosive growth, with revenues increasing 18% to $13.5 billion in 2006. Given the recent releases of the latest Nintendo and Sony gaming consoles, coupled with ever more powerful personal computers, it stands to reason this industry will only continue to grow, and with it the number of organizations entering the market and individuals seeking to make a career in video game development.
Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame provides readers with an introductory resource for learning how to create compelling games using the open source Python programming language and Pygame games development library. Authored by industry veteran and Python expert Will McGugan, readers are treated to not only a comprehensive, practical introduction to games development using these popular technologies, but also capitalize upon numerous tips and tricks Will has accumulated over his career of both creating games for some of the world's largest gaming developers and his own products.
Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice) Reviews
Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice) Reviews
| 23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:  A good introduction, but still a little lacking in some places, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice) (Paperback) I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from buying this book if you are interested in game programming with Python. Other than it being (I think) the only book out there on this topic, it's a pretty good and well-written book that will introduce you to a lot of material. However, I do agree with some of the complaints from Craig Obrien's review. You can't run many of the sample programs without the author's gameobjects library. A couple of things this library does involves vectors and matrices, but I'm not sure why we weren't told about something like NumPy, which, while more complicated, allows advanced math computations like this. In other words, something that is not only pre-existing, but a standard in the Python world. There is also at least one program later in the book that requires the win32gui and win32con modules to run, but this is not mentioned in the book, so unless you open up the code and investigate why the program won't run, you'll never... Read more 13 of 13 people found the following review helpful: Surprised by what is covered, By This review is from: Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice) (Paperback) There aren't many books on this subject so I was very happy when I found out that this book was in the works. I have a growing number of books published by Apress on my shelf and the author regularly posted to the Pygame mail list while working on this book. For the most part, Pygame a Python wrapper for SDL which is a great opensource media library. Most of my experience with SDL has been using it with C/C++ on GNU/Linux but Pygame is of interest for other reasons. For one, since it is a cross platform scripting language, set up and development time is cut down. Secondly, but related, is that as part of an educational program in NYC, I teach teachers and students various topics in multimedia and would like to move into gaming. In my opinion Pygame is perfect for that because it is powerful, fairly simple to learn and since it is cross-platform they will be able to run their programs on whatever platform they use at home. Like a previous reviewer said, I... Read more 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:  Perfect Introduction to Python and the Pygame library., This review is from: Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice) (Paperback) I had dabbled in Python before purchasing this book so I wasn't a complete novice, but it seemed to hit the spot in terms of easing the reader into python programming and the pygame library. It's very well written, the examples are interesting and by the end of the book I was able to put together a simple 3D shooting game pretty quickly on my own. Excellent stuff!! |
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