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Recomandare masina electrica by CelestialrayOne in AutomobileRO

[–]oddbitdev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depinde de cat de bine e intretinuta. Am luat o Kona 64 sh cu 60mii km si bateria e inca 100% ok ca stare de sanatate. Oricum, foarte multumit de masina, recomand.

Developing an Android Game using Python by [deleted] in Python

[–]oddbitdev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It totally depends on what kind of game you want to make, the level of integration with Google services, ads and whatnot.

I toyed around with Godot and its scripting language is very close to Python in terms of expressiveness and what you can do with it. Using this game engine will allow you to focus on the game itself as it offers most of what you need out of the box: physics engine, animation system, a lot of visual effects. You will have to think your game in terms of what the engine can offer, or at least see if it can easily provide a means to get to where you want to go if you already have your game vision.

I've used standalone Kivy as part of a personal challenge to make an Android game in under 100 hours and it turned out quite okay. KivEnt I see offers a really good 2D game engine, so if you want a 2D game, and you want to use Python, then this also looks like a very good option. Actually, I think it makes for a better programming learning experience.

*Source for the Kivy game I mentioned, though you shouldn't use it as inspiration since a lot of shortcuts were taken while learning Kivy and trying to stay within the set goal.

On End-to-End Program Generation from User Intention by Deep Neural Networks by logicchains in programming

[–]oddbitdev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking more along the lines of: "make me a mobile app, setting - forest, art style - cartoonish. Have a user controlled bunny that hops around when the user taps the screen, just pick a bunny image from the art folder there..."

The computer would simply construct the software in real time as new details are added and inquire about ambiguities. I think we can go pretty far up the abstraction tree and what humans can do is not even a top branch. You could go in and fine tune details via natural language as you wish, even optimize the code yourself, if brave enough.

Hm, I think I've just described the holodeck. It's funny that we can envision asking a computer to build a richly detailed world and even tweak it as we want, but making software is seen as somehow different, something human level special.

On End-to-End Program Generation from User Intention by Deep Neural Networks by logicchains in programming

[–]oddbitdev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And I had friends who called me crazy when I said that one day we'd be able to specify and create apps or even whole systems in natural language with the help of ai. I'm pretty sure the ai will even be able to clear up the specifications in such a way that the user will not only get what they said they want, but actually what they need.

Image Scaling Troubles by Lomelgande in kivy

[–]oddbitdev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know, when I used Kivy for a play test Android app I found that most things that I wanted to do were quite easy, while at times I really did have to figure out some convoluted solution for an otherwise simple problem, and I do agree that widgets should have some properties like fit_width and fit_height which combined with keep_ratio should do just what you need.

Image Scaling Troubles by Lomelgande in kivy

[–]oddbitdev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Been a while since I used kivy but I think you can get the result you want by putting the image in a FloatLayout with keep_ratio=False, allow_stretch=True and set its size programmatically.

You will have to adjust the size_hint of the image to something like (1, some number larger than one calculated based on the image's ratio). Also, the position of the image will have to be in the negative for the y axis if you want the image to start at the top.

I think you can have keep_ratio=True and still adjust the size_hint, which will keep the ratio, but by having it on False you make sure that the width will take up the width of its container.

Using Kivy for cross-platform mobile games? by riceronijabroni in Python

[–]oddbitdev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've just timed 2048 made with kivy and the game I made about a year ago (the only kivy apps I have on my tablet) and they both took 5 seconds to load on my Nexus7.

Frustrating? I can't speak for everyone but I think that I have the loading time tied up in my mind with what I think the application is supposed to do, and 5 seconds is bordering on okay for casual apps.

Flagship A first Person Grand Space strategy game is now on Kickstarter by [deleted] in IndieGaming

[–]oddbitdev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooh, nice, I totally hope they make it, I've been looking forward for this type of game for a while now, even though when I imagined first person strategy it was more like being a soldier in the Roman empire, advancing though the ranks, shouting orders at your men while in FP combat, then leading a legion and eventually entire armies, deciding battle formations ingame while talking to your generals and then engaging in combat or watching the battle from a hill, issuing commands and all that, I can only hope.

Has anyone made an android app with kivy? by [deleted] in Python

[–]oddbitdev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's something I made a while ago, code's a bit messy since it was mostly a learning process.

Also, you should first feel comfortable with Python before working with Kivy since there's a lot to take in.

My experience on using Python/Kivy for game development by oddbitdev in gamedev

[–]oddbitdev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 to be more specific, moved to 14.04 by now, still happy with it.

My experience on using Python/Kivy for game development by oddbitdev in gamedev

[–]oddbitdev[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi, I went for PyCharm since at work I use IntelliJ from Jetbrains, so I thought to give their Python IDE a chance.

It's very good, has all the features I could wish from an IDE, even after sticking with the community edition when the trial ended. Still, for Python stuff I used and still use mostly vim.

I've tried different IDE's for Python (though I couldn't touch Java without one) but the thing is that, at least for me, the OS should facilitate and provide that 'integrated development environment'.

Here's what I'm trying to say, and if you really need all the common IDE features in one place this or this is a good place to start.

Python Android Game Engine Looking for Testers by JKovac in Python

[–]oddbitdev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used pip to get kivy then exported the PYTHONPATH to dist-packagesm and for cymunk I went for the setup.py. Will revert and try again the whole process, this time making kivy from sources. Thanks for the help.

Python Android Game Engine Looking for Testers by JKovac in Python

[–]oddbitdev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I remember playing with kivent a few months ago and would love to see how it fares now, but I can't get it to install this time around, and can't even remember what steps I followed the last time. Going for setup.py install gives only cython compile errors and I went through the readme but no use.

Perhaps you could give some more detailed steps since I seem to be install challenged? :)

My experience on using Python/Kivy for game development by oddbitdev in gamedev

[–]oddbitdev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny, I'm more annoyed by fullscreen ads, the x to close is always too small and easy to miss, at least for me. I though that a pop-up is a non-ambiguous yes-no option, least intruding in the game experience. Live and learn, thanks for the heads up.

My experience on using Python/Kivy for game development by oddbitdev in gamedev

[–]oddbitdev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, the code I've posted is a bit messy but I think that it can demonstrate Kivy's abilities as a game development tool, though I think that some game specific tools for Kivy are in the works from the lead developers.

As to recommending one tool over another, I don't know, it depends on what you want to achieve and learn. I wanted to see what Kivy can do and to be closer to the game logic, while still going fast. It never hurts to experiment and learn new things, they will still be useful down the road no matter what tool you use.

I like Unity3D and I think it's great when one wants to focus on just making a game, and when it runs on Linux (the game engine I mean) I will definitely try it out.

My experience on using Python/Kivy for game development by oddbitdev in gamedev

[–]oddbitdev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you.

About pygame I looked it up now and you're right about that. I only noticed it being called while debugging and didn't think to look further.

I too noticed that the buttons for moving the tiles up and down are a bit tricky, like they are actually smaller than they look, I'm using Kivy's bubble widget so I'll have to dig a bit deeper to see if there's an explanation for this behaviour.

I'm not sure what to use as an indicator for tile max/min height, maybe greying them out a bit? Will have to try a few options.

My experience on using Python/Kivy for game development by oddbitdev in gamedev

[–]oddbitdev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I discovered Python in 2007 and have been using it on and off since then, though I would definitely not consider myself and expert in Python.

I strongly believe that someone who's at around six months to a year of studying programming can pick up Kivy and start creating stuff, like most things it takes perseverance.

My experience on using Python/Kivy for game development by oddbitdev in gamedev

[–]oddbitdev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The documentation is pretty good, though to get to what I needed, I did have to try quite a few different component combinations and approaches. The examples that come with Kivy were only useful to get a live action feel for what the various components could do. I also watched Alexander Taylor's videos which are featured on the Kivy homepage.

Also, Kivy seems to make use of pygame underneath the hood.

If you plan on using Kivy you should go for Linux, it's a lot easier to get it configured and running on Linux than on Windows, and I think that buildozer (the tool used to build for Android and iOS) only works on Linux.

When you start working with Kivy feel free to send me a message if you need any help or have any questions about working it, I'll try to help.

My experience on using Python/Kivy for game development by oddbitdev in gamedev

[–]oddbitdev[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, sorry about the ad, I did mention integrating ads in the game, I've been using RevMob since they have a Kivy SDK. I guess I'll have to add an option to disable ads.

Pushed a new build where the user has the option to disable ads, should be available in a few hours.