Comments for The “Invent with Python” Blog

Comment on Source Code Makeover: Demon Kingdom, Part 1 by Niko

Niko — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:12:50 +0000

Nice progress!

But you should check the stuff you have done with your renaming. In the first lines of the diff you destroyed an URL. Later on (line 619 or 627) you will find some probably unwanted behaviour.
My take on refactoring on things like this is to use autopep8 (can be found on PyPI), because it does thinks like that safe and sane.

Maybe this is an alternative for you.

Comment on Source Code Makeover: Demon Kingdom, Part 1 by Burke

Burke — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:49:07 +0000

I just started to learn programming a month or so ago and this is fantastic. Thanks for posting your work!

Comment on Multithreaded Python Tutorial with the “Threadworms” Demo by xiao

xiao — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:46:23 +0000

Hello,I’m new to python multithread programming.I can’t understand the example which the out put is 199083 20000.I think I have not got the idea of
threading lock.You defined MY_LOCK outside the class and then used it directly
inside the class.I don’t know how it works.Please help,thanks.:P

Comment on Multithreaded Python Tutorial with the “Threadworms” Demo by xiao

xiao — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:07:40 +0000

Hello,I’m learning multithread programming from this post.The concept in this post seams easy to understand and quite funny.You’re so brilliant!

Comment on Text Adventure vs. MUD vs. Roguelike vs. Dwarf Fortress by Lion Kimbro

Lion Kimbro — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:44:45 +0000

Consider the “Candy Box” — it’s a text game, and very simple, with incredible play value.

It’s an interesting category. I don’t know what to call it. It’s not a text adventure, MUD, rogue-like, or world sim.

Comment on Text Adventure vs. MUD vs. Roguelike vs. Dwarf Fortress by JG

JG — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:48:29 +0000

There’s also a tie to the ASCII “Empire” game which became Civ, and even SimCity in graphical form.

Comment on Text Adventure vs. MUD vs. Roguelike vs. Dwarf Fortress by bdubyapee

bdubyapee — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:36:33 +0000

Interesting topic. I have been working on a MUD style game written in Python for years. Mostly used as a platform for playing with new Python features since I started tinkering around back in ’05ish. Unfortunately life has been in the way for quite some time, but feel free to take a look at my project for (probably old/bad) ideas on how do do things!

https://github.com/bdubyapee/apm

Comment on Text Adventure vs. MUD vs. Roguelike vs. Dwarf Fortress by Jslakro

Jslakro — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:00:37 +0000

Nice to see a brief description of all text-related game genres.
I didn’t know the meaning of hack-and-slash concept. I consider the 8 items list is useful for game design.
Thx! It was plain

Comment on Text Adventure vs. MUD vs. Roguelike vs. Dwarf Fortress by Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:56:28 +0000

I would love to see a tutorial on roguelikes from you :) Keep up the good work!

Comment on Text Adventure vs. MUD vs. Roguelike vs. Dwarf Fortress by Greg Taylor

Greg Taylor — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:10:06 +0000

Shameless plug, but Evennia is an open source, BSD-licensed MUD server with Django and Twisted. If you’re curious enough to try your hand at a game, consider checking it out: http://evennia.com/

We hang out on #evennia at FreeNode, and the community is active and helpful.