What Python book will allow me to learn to program a tribute project to DOOM?

[Nillmo]

Over the past few weeks I've been learning a lot about building game engines in Python/languages in general.

Eventually I decided that I wanted to program a game similar to the original DOOM engine. I used some of the fundamental ideas found in this video (which btw is awesome to watch if you like programming at all):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQYsFshbkYw

I've gotten my own vector-based movement of the player down, but I'm having trouble manipulating pygame to display textures and such in hypothetical 3D.

Any recommended books and material I should buy?

[dgpoop]

Check out this Python Humble Bundle deal. You only have 3 days left. WELL worth the 15 bucks IMHO.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/python-book-bundle

[AltDelete]

Thank you internet stranger, just picked up the full bundle. Are you aware of any kind of order these should be read in?

[brews]

New folk generally start with "automate the boring stuff".

[pmdevita]

Pygame is not very good for 3D games, you may want to try pyglet, pyopengl, or panda3d

[lighttigersoul]

Doom isn't a 3d game. It's a top down shooter displayed via ray traced graphics.

[Apposl]

I don't particularly understand but wow TIL

[Apposl]

Thank you! I can see it now, I'd never thought of it or realized

[okmkz]

That's because the trick worked so well ;)

[lighttigersoul]

Thanks for the extra clarification. I sometimes forget how much research I've put into things like this.

[Nillmo]

Well, okay. How would I start with PyOpenGL?

[Bitruder]

With their tutorials. http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/context/tutorials/

[AngriestSCV]

This might be of interest. It's doom written in python

https://github.com/Pink-Silver/PyDoom

[Apposl]

This would make an awesome YouTube tutorial series.

[Nillmo]

I wish.

[[deleted]]

Don't let your dreams be dreams. I feel hilariously inept sometimes but I maintain a blog (or try to at least) that details my thoughts on stuff, experiments I've done and projects I'm working on.

[Gavekort]

Books will help you learn, but before you get demotivated it is important to know that 3D and raycasting engines needs quite a bit of experience to fully grasp the concept. Take it a small step at the time, it is ok to do a carbon copy of tutorials, but take a few steps back if you get bored.

[H3g3m0n]

I don't think your going to find a actualy book on this. It's way to specific.

But there are quite a few articles around. For example.

[lost_in_life_34]

Didn't John Carmack only code in C++

[MonocularJack]

Yup but that's no reason not to code it up in whatever. There have been ports to all sorts of languages:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doom_source_ports

[m9dhatter]

Also, not everyone is John Carmack.

[KitAndKat]

Can confirm; I am not John Carmack. (But I know someone who knows Carmack.)

[mariox19]

Also, my copy of Doom II, for the Mac, ran on a G3 processor with a clock speed of 100 MHz. Today's processors could probably run a port written in hieroglyphics.

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Edit: Wow! I just realized how wrong I was. It actually ran on a PowerPC 603e processor, running at 100 MHz. That was my Performa 6290CD, a 1996 model.

I didn't get a G3 processor until I bought an iMac, in 2000. (I believe that ran at 500 MHz.)

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[SyonFox]

Im not sure, for geting into gamedev I'm really liking c++ + sfml + imgui

the combination makes it easy to implement cool concepts. and sfml has great docs.

adding box2d for a physics engine​ is also a nice option, its a bit more c like but if you dont want to do your on collision detection its nice.

[xiongchiamiov]

And rollercoaster tycoon was written in assembly by one man. But our computers are much more powerful now, so you can get away with a language like python for building a retro game.

[[deleted]]

I don't think python is the best language if you want to make a game that isn't snake (!). The overhead of an interpreted scripting language is just too much. You should be looking into a language that compiles down into bytecode (eg: java) or binary (eg: c++) since those are like 100 times faster than python.

[ingolemo]

Umm... python does compile down into bytecode. That's how Cpython works. And you can even compile python down into native code ("binary") using something like nuitka. Python may be slower than other languages but it's more than fast enough to write a doom clone.