jupyter-play 0.1.0

Play classic games in your Jupyter Notebook! Includes a collection of basic JS/HTML/CSS games from Steven Lambert (Github: straker)

jupyter-play

This package contains a number of basic HTML/CSS/JS games you can play in your jupyter notebook!

All credit for making the original game files goes to Steven Lambert.

Installation

pip install jupyter-play

I recommend uv to all python users for managing their dependencies and virtual environments.

uv init # optional, creates a pyproject.toml 
uv venv --python 3.11 
source .venv/bin/activate
uv add --group fun jupyter-play # e.g. add a "fun" group under your development dependencies

The package source distribution includes a .zip of html games to play. setup.py includes a custom build step to unzip the game files from this html_games.zip; this means the files are unzipped in the installed version of the package (the "wheel"). More information on source distributions vs wheels can be found here.

• To packaging workshop attendees (12/20/24): see if you can figure out how to exclude .zip from the installed state!

download_games.sh is the script to download and zip the game files from the original github gists.

Usage

## in an .ipynb file

from jupyter_play import PLAY

# View the list of games included
print(PLAY.list_games())

# Play any game you like
PLAY.SNAKE()

You can also run your own games (right now just from a string)

# Play your own game (load to string first)
from jupyter_play import play
with open('my_one_file_game.html', 'r') as file: 
    game_html = file.read()
play(game_html)

Please note that this package is only meant to work with basic, self-contained, one-file .html games in a jupyter notebook environment (i.e. with a running ipykernel).

Contributing

The games' creator intentionally left some core features lacking as an exercise for the reader. I may be making some of these additions myself, but if you're excited to contribute yourself please feel free to open a PR and edit one of the base game files in source_games.

I have other ideas for feature additions as well:

• Basic AIs to play the games for you in a screensaver-like fashion.
• Configure difficulty and speed settings.
• Introduce new games.
• Add new levels (procedurally generated?)