PyWeek - Game Development Resources (updated 2011-11-04)

The following are resources you might find useful in developing games:

PyWeek Help
How to be Successful at PyWeek
How to fail at PyWeek (slides)
PyGame wiki chock full of tutorials, game resources, distribution advice and more.
Big List of Indie Resources
Big List of Game Design
Royalty free music by inkaudio
Libraries: pygame (pgu), pyglet (cocos2d), pysfml, Albow, pymunk

Great video about good game design as illustrated by the Mega Man series (caution: contains swearing)

"Pixothello is a pixelling program used to make tilesets quickly and enjoyably." He ain't kidding. Check out the short video in which he kicks the pants of all the other pixel-art tools I've used. I'm seriously considering doing a pixel-art game this time around just to use it :-) It's Windows-only, sadly. Won't hold some of you back, I know, but it's a bit of a pain for me.

Previously I've used Pixen on OS X but it doesn't have the same awesome tileset creation mode as Pixothello.

Here's a list of art asset creation tools I just found in my wandering :-)

If you have anything you think should be added to this list, please let me know in a comment!

— richard on 2011/08/10 03:37
— edited on 2012/01/30 02:14

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By Tee on 2011/08/13 00:20:

It's hard not to add this awesome link.

Pixel Prospector's Indie Resources

By superjoe on 2011/08/23 14:23:

Email I got:


Hi
 I'm interested in providing music for games created during pyweek. All I ask is for a text link back to websites from the hackers who use my music or effects.
 The link should be like so:

 <a href="http://www.inkaudio.com"> royalty free music by inkaudio </a>

 Let me know if you're interested. you can check out samples here : http://www.inkaudio.com,  I have hundreds more.

Thanks.
 

By richard on 2011/11/04 01:23:

Added a link to a great video about good game design as illustrated by the Mega Man series (contains swearing.)

By Cosmologicon on 2012/04/09 19:34:

Along the lines of "how to succeed/fail at Pyweek", one great resource is postmortem posts on this discussion board. You can find a bunch with a search for "postmortem", or if you find a game you like, look through its diary entries for a postmortem.

By Willyfrog on 2012/05/04 22:35:

If you liked pixotello, you'll probably like "http://danikgames.com/stuff/pyxeledit/"

By richard on 2012/05/05 00:05:

Oh, Willyfrog, you just made my day! :-)