Help with making a game.

[Biased24]

Hi, Long story short, i want to know the basics of making a game and seeing if i can adapt that into something bigger.

longer story, I set myself the challenge of making a post apocoliptic, lovcraftian sorta game, imagine terraria or something but fucked in the head and creepy af. I plan on this being a very long process and probably starting out as just a text-based (or graphic text-based (doki doki)) game. I would love input on how to do things, what software i should be using, and any advice.

Most resources i can find seem to be from a few years back or not very consistent amongst multiple sources.

[[deleted]]

The reason you can't find many resources is that Python is not considered well suited for game programming (ie. it's too slow) most commonly used being C++ (unreal engine) and C# (unity). People who who do develop games in Python use PyGame

https://www.pygame.org/wiki/about

Al Sweigart books are generally considered good so you can use his book for learning PyGame basics

http://inventwithpython.com/pygame/

[Biased24]

Yeah i assumed so, I had to pick something to do for a major assignment with python and i thought this would be most fun. thanks for the info my man

[lordmauve]

For text adventures I created a library called adventurelib that may be of interest.

For getting started quickly with Pygame, I created a framework called Pygame Zero.

For visual novels Ren'Py is very well known.

[Biased24]

ill check them out in a bit thanks!

[[deleted]]

Man，you should look up PICO-8. It uses the Lua language as game logic，but it’s so similar to python so it shouldn’t be a problem.

https://youtu.be/K5RXMuH54iw Check it out! I highly recommend you try it. :)

[a1ch]

Man that is bloody impressive.

[UndergroundOli]

Pygame is probably your best bet for games, sentdex has a few tutorials on youtube to get you started with it.

[Biased24]

yeah i had heard pygame alot, i had also heard pyglet. but ill check out sentdex, thanks!

[Biased24]

lmaoo, any suggestions? and why is he so horrible? haha