If you aren’t careful (and even sometime when you are) realtime games written in Python sometimes hit speed problems and require some profiling to bring them to a playable speed. Typically, I would use the Python standard library’s “profile” module to find “hot” functions which are stealing all the CPU cycles. Today I discovered another [...]

Shoodar is a little game I’ve been writing, mostly to learn Rabbyt (although these things tend to grow beyond learning exercises ….. ). Essentially it’s just a silly vertical shooter, but there is an Ikaruga-inpired twist. It’s in early stages of development, but I’ve put a playable version up in the Games section

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There’s a nice little writeup on Gamasutra describing how the crazy gravity in Super Mario Galaxy was implemented, including demo sourcecode. It’s not ‘real’ physics (no surprises there ….). Essentially, Mario’s orientation is corrected to smoothly align with the surface normal of the closest ‘ground’ polygon.
This is the first in a new series of “Games [...]