I have a game written in pygame that I am hoping to release in a few
months for Windows, Mac and Linux.
I am looking for someone who is familiar with packaging up pygame
projects into professional looking windows (exe) and mac installers
(app) who can do it for my game. The only dependencies are pygame 1.9
and python 2.7. There are a few directories with assets in them such
as art, ogg sound files and some text scripts.
I'm pretty sure it's an easy job if you know what you're doing, and I
am willing to pay a premium to make it a low hassle. Not only would
you be earning some quick cash, helping me out and also taking pygame
to a new audience, but you also get "release engineer" in the credits.
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Luke Miller wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have a game written in pygame that I am hoping to release in a few
> months for Windows, Mac and Linux.
> I am looking for someone who is familiar with packaging up pygame
> projects into professional looking windows (exe) and mac installers
> (app) who can do it for my game. The only dependencies are pygame 1.9
> and python 2.7. There are a few directories with assets in them such
> as art, ogg sound files and some text scripts.
I can't do it for you, but are also interested in how such a thing should be done properly. I am experimenting with the distutils package, which seems to be the standard way to create distribution packages, but I haven't quite mastered it yet. If you are interested take a look at
I'm assuming you want to sell without any kind of DRM (also not
advocating or suggesting you should want to - just being clear)
If those are your only dependencies, you've made a game worth selling,
and you have access to some kind of windows PC, you can easily do this
yourself on windows.
both require some very light and simple config scripts, just find some
examples of each and modify.
mac installers might be a bit more trouble, because you have so many
options (32 vs 64 bit, system python vs framework, blah blah) and you
may have trouble with one or the other, but the process is similar and
straightforward. You'll also need access to a mac for this.
To bundle it, usually people just zip the app for simplicity (after
downloading it, they just get your app on the desktop and do with it
what they want) and that's what I'd recommend. But if you want
something fancier, you could do either compressed disk image (kind of
old school, but still a good option) where you make a background image
for the image that shows that people should drag the icon to
applications or some crap like that. You could also do an installer,
but for your case it would be more complicated with no benefit.
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Luke Miller <dodgyvi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have a game written in pygame that I am hoping to release in a few
> months for Windows, Mac and Linux.
> I am looking for someone who is familiar with packaging up pygame
> projects into professional looking windows (exe) and mac installers
> (app) who can do it for my game. The only dependencies are pygame 1.9
> and python 2.7. There are a few directories with assets in them such
> as art, ogg sound files and some text scripts.
> I'm pretty sure it's an easy job if you know what you're doing, and I
> am willing to pay a premium to make it a low hassle. Not only would
> you be earning some quick cash, helping me out and also taking pygame
> to a new audience, but you also get "release engineer" in the credits.
>> I have a game written in pygame that I am hoping to release in a few
>> months for Windows, Mac and Linux.
>> I am looking for someone who is familiar with packaging up pygame
>> projects into professional looking windows (exe) and mac installers
>> (app) who can do it for my game. The only dependencies are pygame 1.9
>> and python 2.7. There are a few directories with assets in them such
>> as art, ogg sound files and some text scripts.
> I can't do it for you, but are also interested in how such a thing > should be done properly. I am experimenting with the distutils package, > which seems to be the standard way to create distribution packages, but > I haven't quite mastered it yet. If you are interested take a look at
> I have a game written in pygame that I am hoping to release in a few
> months for Windows, Mac and Linux.
> I am looking for someone who is familiar with packaging up pygame
> projects into professional looking windows (exe) and mac installers
> (app) who can do it for my game. The only dependencies are pygame 1.9
> and python 2.7. There are a few directories with assets in them such
> as art, ogg sound files and some text scripts.
> I'm pretty sure it's an easy job if you know what you're doing, and I
> am willing to pay a premium to make it a low hassle. Not only would
> you be earning some quick cash, helping me out and also taking pygame
> to a new audience, but you also get "release engineer" in the credits.
I am building a service for exactly this use case: for folks that want to create distributions, installers, etc. but don't care to know about Python packaging logistics:
