coda_kids 0.2.4

Partial pygame wrapper and game programming framework.

coda_kids

coda_kids is a partial wrapper package around pygame. It’s purpose is to make game development more accessible to a younger audiences of students. It provides inline documentation, wrappers for linter unfriendly features, and provides utility functionality/classes such as game objects and constants for common data such as colors and input.

It is currently being designed for and tested with a series of game programming exercises for an educational textbook titled Coda Kids.

The package is being designed and implemented with and for the following toolset:

Python 3.5.2 with latest Pygame and Pylint. Latest Visual Studio Code (1.11+ as of writting) with the Python extension installed.

Simple Example

import coda_kids as coda

WINDOW = coda.Vector2(800, 600)
SCREEN = coda.start(WINDOW, "Hello World!")
TEXT = coda.TextObject(coda.color.BLACK, 48, "Hello World!")
TEXT.location = WINDOW / 2 # center of window
TEXT.centered = True

while True:
    for event in coda.event.listing():
        if coda.event.quit_game(event):
            coda.stop()
    coda.start_draw(SCREEN, coda.color.WHITE)
    TEXT.draw(SCREEN)
    coda.end_draw()

To Do

1. Add a 2D animation class supportable by objects.

2. Runtime type checking for coda_kids class constructors and function arguments.

3. Provide additional example code and documentation.

4. Clean up object interface methods.

5. Refactor finite state machine tools.

Change Log

0.2.4

• Added opinional 2d sprite animation class for use with objects.

• Added update loop for game objects that applies velocity and updates animations.

0.2.3

• Added an output console utility for in window output text. It can be found in coda_kids.utilities.

• Added support functions and documentation for starting and ending a frame.

• Cleaned up and added documentation to the .rst file.

0.2.2

• Updated git repo and setup/url information.

• Added action system to coda for python class members. [Feature in Alpha]

• Updated object class to properly scale objects with it’s scale member.

• Moved standard library imports to coda_kids.utilities

0.2.1

• Reformatted some of the library utilities.

0.2.0

• Fixed some formatting issues with the setup.py file.