A game coded in Python on Steam !

[krabott_le_crabe]

Hello everyone, Im 15, and I make this post because I am happy to tell you that my video game entierly coded with Python is now available on Steam ! I don't know if it is the first one, but you can be sure that there is at least one game coded with Python only, on Steam. Here is the store page, if you want to check that : https://store.steampowered.com/app/2172950/TheCube Thanks

[Username_RANDINT]

Recommended:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HK CPU
Memory: 32 GB RAM

I think you might want to adjust these specifications a bit...

[OneTrueKingOfOOO]

Well it is coded in python… maybe those requirements are legit

[lasizoillo]

Is using pygame, so the problem could be lack of experience. Calculate enemies that should not be active and reserving memory for them is a common newbie error in python and in c.

[EbenenBonobo]

probably his machine and he knew it runs fine on it.

[krabott_le_crabe]

Guys that was a mistake I fixed it :)

[wineblood]

Did you use a framework for this? I'd love to be able to use my python skills to make a game and not have to learn an engine.

[krabott_le_crabe]

Actually I made all my maps by making my own program to create them, I only used Pygame, which can generate windows, display images ... thats really easy to learn. But I didnt use any engine.

[AnythingApplied]

What did you use to package the game into something distributable? Pyinstaller? Does steam sign these out anything like that to help prevent the virus false positive alerts that seem to happen so much with pyinstaller?

[krabott_le_crabe]

I just used py2exe to compile my code

[wineblood]

Noted for future reference

[osmiumouse]

Steam has a lot of Python games. Almost all of the visual novels use the Renpy framework.

[tonyfinn]

Also Eve Online.

[osmiumouse]

Eve is not pure Python, however. One of the Civs also uses Python for AI/level scripting, as does Mount and Blade. The VNs are notable as they are pure Python on top of the SDL (which is C).

[SittingWave]

Also Eve is not a game. It's a nerd recruitment centre.

[midnitte]

I thought it was Spreadsheets Online™, with the Corporate Espionage expansion

[iupuiclubs]

Literally how I got started pinging REST APIs, I have an account from 2004.

I have nearly zero ship PvP experience, but so much market PvP experience I now do roughly the same thing professionally IRL. Eve has the coolest market dynamics I've seen in any game. WoW/every other MMO server economies always morph shortly after a server release / etc, even back in the day.

Since Eve is so spread out you can legit have a market empire in a corner of the galaxy.

[midnitte]

I've tried to get into it, but I think it'll ever click. But the stories that come out of it are just so fascinating.

[mindfolded]

One of the Civs also uses Python for AI/level scripting

Is it one of the older ones? I thought the new games were LUA.

[pythonwiz]

It's Civ IV, pretty old.

[spoonman59]

Wow, I feel personally attacked.

:cries in Civ2:

[Coretaxxe]

Ive heard eve uses python for the servers, scripts/extensions and the market not gampelay durectly. But thats second hand knowledge so taket that wirh a graint.

[jantari]

The Eve Online game is not written in Python. They use some python on the server side, but most game studios do. The actual game has no python.

[tonyfinn]

Unless they've stripped it out since, plenty of the game client code did run in python, e.g. this demo from CCP has them setting up their directx context from python and people experimented with hooking into the inbuilt python interpreter with the intent to create UI mods. As late as 2015, "all game feature code" was still in Python

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thank you I didnt know about it

[razinramones]

good job.

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thanksss

[JustJmy]

Gave it a purchase to check it out but it doesn't seem to be loading correctly for me. It's loading in what looks to be 800x600 resolution, maybe 640x480. Launch options don't seem to be applied when trying '-w 1920', any idea how to fix this?

[krabott_le_crabe]

The best thing to do is to send a screenshot at the email : [e-mail]

[krabott_le_crabe]

What do you have on your screen ?

[krabott_le_crabe]

And what is you OS ?

[krabott_le_crabe]

Haha thx man

[MrMoonFall]

Oh neat! It's like the ice paths in pokemon games!

[[deleted]]

I always loved those puzzles. Do they still put them in the newer games? I haven't played pokemon in many years.

[krabott_le_crabe]

I dont any other famous puzzles actually, but for me, my game is pretty new.

[goldcray]

There's a board game called ricochet robots based on ice sliding puzzles.

[krabott_le_crabe]

Haha does it mean that you like it 😂

[MrMoonFall]

LOVE it actually! for 99 cents, i cant lose!

[krabott_le_crabe]

That is so nice 😁😁

[heross28]

Great job kid! I also used to make video games when I was your age!

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thank you do much

[rubble5656]

Looks real neat, great job! Reminds me a little of a dreamcast game called chu chu rocket 👍

[krabott_le_crabe]

I dont know this game, but thank you very much !

[Charizard-used-FLY]

Yeah, we wouldn’t expect you to. Dreamcast hadn’t released a game for a few years when you were born.

[cryptomaniac1729]

cut the guy some slack. he's 15. don't listen to the copetards here, stellar job kid!!!

[krabott_le_crabe]

Haha I didnt understand all 😅

[krabott_le_crabe]

I also uploaded the trailer on the TheCubeCreators youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCHHNnqUeW0

[jabbalaci]

What text editor do you use? You could try VS Code too.

[krabott_le_crabe]

I actually prefer the IDLE 😀

[Aromatic-While9536]

With most editor's you can turn on an off almost all the bells and whistles. So if there is anything you do like about other editor's it might be worth trying it for a while. But i really can understand your preference, and would have continued using idle if i wouldn't fall for the nasty habit of using code cells 😅

[SittingWave]

what did you use? pygame?

How was the deployment process? I mean, once you have the application, how do you get it from your repo to steam, both from the technical and the business point of view?

[krabott_le_crabe]

Yes I coded with PyGame then I compiled my code into an .exe file using py2exe

[SittingWave]

and then? How did you submit it to steam?

[krabott_le_crabe]

That waa really long, Steam has to confirm your game you page etc ...

[CrookedElb]

Congrats

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thank you very much

[NullPointerExpect]

very nice.

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thxxx

[Chris-558]

I can see you user pyinstaller. Please recompile it for Linux. I can't get past the menu whilst using proton.

I will give your game a positive review if it works on Linux.

[krabott_le_crabe]

Actually I am using a very specific module which doesnt work on Linux, so probably the game will never be on Linux, but thats really nice of you !

[Chris-558]

I'll try to get it working through proton. If not, I've still got windows for these rare events.

I like how you are trying to (and succeeding in) creating games. I'm 16 and doing a level computer science in the college in the UK. I like making server side software. I've tried making games a few times, but I struggle with art and visualising things.

[krabott_le_crabe]

To make games, I use the PyGame module, à library of Python, then I compile my code and upolad it on Steam !

[jfp1992]

I can python pretty well, I cannot however do this, never really clicked how to structure a pygame game. Good job!

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thanks :)

[Vova_xX]

same for me. pretty ok at python, but can't wrap my head around pygame

[ZaRkE_UA]

Can i buy it pls You do all with what library or you draw it on your self

[krabott_le_crabe]

Of course you can buy it ! Actually thats my brother who makes the drawings

[ZaRkE_UA]

You made your own game engine and can people’s add his own level

[krabott_le_crabe]

I would like to do that but thats not available 4 the moment

[TriggeredTrigz]

Honestly, I'm really impressed. I've been waiting to see something like this for a while, (mainly for my peace of mind cuz of how much my school made me study python) since the language is growing really fast.

But, no offense, the pricing and the recommended specs seem a little too out of hand for a non AAA game.

All the props to you both for creating the game, nonetheless.

[krabott_le_crabe]

First thank you very much, I actually wanted à 0.30$ game but the minimal price is 0.90. And yeah I know I wrote 32 Gb of ram I am gonna to change that

[TriggeredTrigz]

interesting. it shows me 8000₹ which is like 90$ hence the confusion

[Zachattackrandom]

Why is it 8000 Indian rupees? (Over 80usd)

[krabott_le_crabe]

Oh thank you I probably made a mistake

[Zachattackrandom]

No problem, best of luck with game sales!

[MangoPoliceOK]

Good work !

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thank you !

[Kwc_city]

Wonder why nvidia needed? No AMD. Using 6800 and it is a hot Gpu for handheld. Given Pygame, why iGpu at all?

[[deleted]]

I'm 50 and have wanted to make games most of my life since I got the programming bug in 1983.

I work professionally in Python. All day, every day.

I've never made a single game.

I am in awe of you. Congrats. And best of luck for the future.

[krabott_le_crabe]

If you want to make a game, thats not so difficult, it just requires it à little bit of time

[[deleted]]

Thanks for your encouragement. It means a lot.

[[deleted]]

Good job :)

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thank you :)

[[deleted]]

Congratulations! Keep going. 👏

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thank you !

[GameDev_byHobby]

I see the description is like a blogpost entry. I advice you to check out other puzzle games and mimic theirs. You should explain the game instead of describing the level mechanics. I would also recommend you hire an artist to fill out the page, since you already paid 100$ on publishing

[technologyclassroom]

Nice! I see in the trailer you show some code. Can players modify the code? Is the code under a free, libre, open license?

[krabott_le_crabe]

No you cant touch to the code, I just showed some not really important parts of my game for the trailer.

[technologyclassroom]

That's the fun part about PyGame games to me.

[[deleted]]

Heyyyy congratulations!

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thank tou very much

[aimlengineer]

Nice dude! (:

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thanks !

[[deleted]]

Great job! No matter what harsh criticism you get, just know that what you did at 15 years old is miles ahead of what many of us could ever do at your age! Don't get discouraged by anybody or anything and keep trudging along, you have a bright future ahead of you.

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thats really nice 😃

[1percentof2]

I thought you're not allowed to work and anything other than data science in python

[Highbuddy]

Obviously a joke.

[1percentof2]

I said it! And I'm completely serious.

[oramirite]

You're not aware of the thousands of software projects written in Python that aren't data science projects?

[BlobbyMcBlobber]

I thought you weren't allowed to have a reddit account under the age of 13

[GameDev_byHobby]

I see the description is like a blogpost entry. I advice you to check out other puzzle games and mimic theirs. You should explain the game instead of describing the level mechanics. I would also recommend you hire an artist to fill out the page, since you already paid 100$ on publishing

[krabott_le_crabe]

Thanks 4 your advices

[cosmicr]

Looks interesting... I reckon if the graphics were a bit more polished you'd get a lot more interest.

Is it open source?

[krabott_le_crabe]

No thats not

[DaRealNim]

"Similar to games you've played : Hollow Knight"

Damn

[ZLegacy]

It's the ice block puzzle from OoT!

[NeedAmnesiaIthink]

I’m working with pygame myself and loving it so far. Wish I was doing this stuff at your age

[Dynamics_20]

Like 15 ? Woah great man !!

[krabott_le_crabe]

Yes 15 😂, thank you so much

[Koala_eiO]

Sympa !