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Development Team/Sugargame (view source)
Revision as of 09:47, 21 November 2009
, 09:47, 21 November 2009→Sugargame
* Provides hooks for saving to and restoring from the Journal
* Provides hooks for saving to and restoring from the Journal
=== Differences between Sugargame and olpcgames ===
The olpcgames framework provides a wrapper around Pygame which attempts to allow a Pygame program to run mostly unmodified under Sugar. To this end, the Pygame program is run in a separate thread with its own Pygame message loop while the main thread runs the GTK message loop. Also, olpcgames wraps Sugar APIs such as the journal and mesh into a Pygame-like API.
Sugargame takes a simpler approach; it simply offers a way to embed Pygame into a GTK widget. The Sugar APIs are used to interact with Sugar, the Pygame APIs are used for the game.
Sugargame advantages:
* Simpler code
* Simpler code
* More elegant interface between Pygame and GTK
* More elegant interface between Pygame and GTK
* Runs as a single thread: no thread related segfaults
* Runs as a single thread: no thread related segfaults
* Possible to use Sugar widgets with Pygame
Sugargame limitations:
* No support for Pango or SVG sprites (yet)
== Using Sugargame ==
== Using Sugargame ==