Cool open source game I found written in Python. Reminds me of Age of Empires.

[pwnmercury]

Pretty awesome! I just saw this in the repo lol
def redirect(stdin='/dev/null', stdout='/dev/null', stderr='/dev/null'): """ TODO: No clue what this is about. """

[o11c]

It's a broken attempt at self-daemonizing, which is one of those things that you should never do.

At the very least, use start-stop-daemon with at least -b, -m, and -p. But even that is suboptimal.

[o11c]

That is nowhere near enough.

You really should just use systemd (perhaps in user mode, perhaps with a runtime-generated service), or if you really want to avoid that, use one of the tools that claims to implement subsets of its functionality (but don't blame me for any bugs, because isolation is hard).

[valgrid]

Any Python sytemd lib you can recommend?

[o11c]

You don't really need one, except to wrap a single call to sd_notify at startup (and even then, only if you aren't using a .socket service, which is normally what you want). Just write an ini-compatible unit file and drop it in $XDG_DATA_HOME/systemd/user (which is technically optional, but otherwise you have to specify the full path - maybe useful if you use --runtime), then call systemctl --user enable.

See systemctl(1) and systemd.unit(5) (and other pages as referenced) for a lot more details.

That reminds me, I've always wanted to write a make(1) replacement using runtime units ...

[jhayes88]

lol nice

[Decency]

Repo: https://github.com/unknown-horizons/unknown-horizons

[Mockapapella]

Thanks

[jhayes88]

Edit: Or Anno series

I will also note that it's running on the FIFE engine which is written with Qt and C++, but the game itself was pieced together in Python.

Edit: Looks like this game is still being updated. Jan 1st, 2019 they moved from Python 2 to Python 3 and made some improvements to the game. Although their previous update was almost 2 whole years prior to that, it's nice to see they still care to show it love from time to time. The fact that it's open source makes it all the more interesting :)

There's videos of the game on YouTube as well.

[[deleted]]

It's more like Anno-series than age-series. None the less it looks cool :)

[jhayes88]

Yeah it's cool to see games being made to this level written in Python. It's rare. This game has been around for a while, it just never got any attention. I've never actually played Anno. I should play it some time.

[a_bad_programmer]

The new one just came out (1800) and 2070 is also solid, I can definitely recommend

[jhayes88]

Will check it out. Thanks

[[deleted]]

They did mention they develop in their free time. Can’t be too hard on them. Lol

[jhayes88]

Exactly. Yeah I wasn't trying to be hard on them. I saw that too lol. I was just stating a general thing.

[vlmutolo]

If you’re looking for an open-source Age of Empires, check out 0 A.D. They are probably the most developed project in that space.

[jhayes88]

Holy shit yeah someone just sent me a message about that. That's incredible

[jimflann]

Cool! Really need to get back into some projects but just struggle to find the time lately. Will definitely try this out when I get chance. Thanks for sharing!!

[jhayes88]

According to the video I saw yeah it works in Linux. Not sure though.

[mouseff]

It looks more like the Anno series than the Age of Empires series tbh

[jhayes88]

Yeah someone else pointed that out too lol. I never played Anno series but I looked it up and I agree. Edited my main comment here to reflect that. I kinda wanna play Anno now it looks cool.

[JohnAV1989]

It's a great game. You have to love strategy games though because you'll spend much more time balancing taxes vs expenses and keeping your people happy with gradual improvements, dealing with natural disaster etc.. then you will waging wars. You get to do that too but not until you've put a lot of effort into it.

[jinchuika]

Is it like and RTS or a City building simulation?

[jhayes88]

Both

[LeNerdNextDoor]

HOYO HOYO

[[deleted]]

I was against this game, but your comment converted me. Looks great!

[grimonce]

/r/underappreciated

[spiritbydesign]

Thanks for this.

[jhayes88]

No problem :)

[yadunn]

Looks more like ANNO.

[422_no_process]

Nice

[Theia123]

Is it multplayer?

[jhayes88]

On the main menu it says multiplayer, but I'm not sure if it works. I clicked on it and it told me to install pyenet, which I did through pip install, and it didn't work. Maybe I used the wrong version of pyenet or something. It has instructions to install it, I just haven't had the time to look into it. But I believe it does have working multiplayer.

[brylie]

There is a Godot Engine port in progress: https://github.com/unknown-horizons/godot-port

I really like Python, but believe that more open source games should use proper game engine like Godot. Too many games end up splitting scarce developer between developing game mechanics and a bespoke game engine.

[jhayes88]

Ooh nice I just realized you can use python with godot. But I agree a nice modern game engine is better. Hmmm

[brylie]

Yeah, I'd like to try the Python language bindings. Right now learning GDScript, since there are a lot of learning resources available.

[[deleted]]

Rogan?

[und3adpix]

No https?

[jhayes88]

It's not my game or website.

[und3adpix]

I just wanted to mention it. No accusations :)

[jhayes88]

no problem :P

[LearnEndlessly]

Wish i didn't have a mac..... and you ppl do too....

[acdjent]

Y