[pygame] pygame for S60

[Jussi Toivola]

Hello,
I'm Jussi Toivola ( aka GameDude at Nokia Forums ). I have been
developing a port of pygame for Nokia's S60 3rd edition mobile phones.

See the announcement here:
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=152969

The port is already usable, but a couple of critical features are
still missing such as font rendering and extended image support(.bmp
images only). The latest addition is OGG\Vorbis audio support.
Feedback is welcome :)

PS: When I decided that nick, I didn't have any plans to create a
pygame port at the time so it's a pure coincidence :)

[Dan Krol]

So any games that work for a PC would work for for the S60 "for free"?
Or are there any special considerations when developing for it?

Either way, great to know, thanks!

[Jussi Toivola]

At least keyboard input handling and small and different screen
resolutions of the phones must be taken into account. I have tested a
couple of the samples provided with the pygame and those were the main
issues. And PyS60 is based on python 2.2, but that should change very
soon. This would be a good topic for a wiki article.

Currently I'm working on getting the remaining basic modules running(
font and ext. image ). Music streaming has some issues too.

2008/12/20 Dan Krol <orbl...@gmail.com>:

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[Jussi Toivola]

TTF font support implemented! Now it is complete enough to start
creating some cool apps with it :)

Get the latest here:
http://jtoivola.googlepages.com/pygame_20081221_signed.sisx

PS: If you have a phone with touch screen, pygame supports it already.
At least emulator does. I wish I had one of those so I could try it
out.

2008/12/20 Jussi Toivola <jtoi...@gmail.com>:

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[andrew baker]

I just wanted to comment on how cool this project is. Thanks for working on it.

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[René Dudfield]

Nice one!

Do you have a picture of some pygame example running on the phone?
That would be good to put on the websites news section :)

ps. a svn account has been sent to you now... so feel free to start a
branch when you're ready :)

[Jussi Toivola]

> I just wanted to comment on how cool this project is. Thanks for working on it.

Thank you. I appreciate that :)

>Do you have a picture of some pygame example running on the phone?
>That would be good to put on the websites news section :)

Nothing worth showing yet. But I'm working on an application launcher
and a snake game. Hopefully soon.

>ps. a svn account has been sent to you now... so feel free to start a
>branch when you're ready :)

Thanks :)

2008/12/21 René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com>:

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[niki]

Jussi Toivola wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm Jussi Toivola ( aka GameDude at Nokia Forums ). I have been
> developing a port of pygame for Nokia's S60 3rd edition mobile phones.

Any chance to make it work on S60 2nd edition?

regards,
Niki

[Jussi Toivola]

No I don't think so unfortunately. The S60 SDL port is for 3rd edition only.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/mertama/sdl.html

Actually most of the work is done for SDL, not pygame. Adding some new
feature has been a matter of adding a new extension(SDL_Mixer,SDL_ttf)
for S60 SDL and enabling it in pygame. Only a few times there have
been any need to modify pygame itself. Porting pygame has been
refreshingly easy so far :)

2008/12/22 niki <ni...@vintech.bg>:

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