Playing with Pygame

Over the past few weeks I've been writing a 'game' of sorts using Python and Pygame - it's still in the very early stages at present and is less of a game and more of a toy/proof of concept. Nonetheless, I'm fairly pleased with the results so far and since this is the first time I've tried doing any pixel art (or any computer art of any description) I think it looks okay ...


Obviously the player sprite is still a work in progress (although he does have a certain charm!)

For dev tools I'm using Eclipse + PyDev for coding and Gimp for the images.

Goodbye Vista!

So, I finally made the switch to Ubuntu. I'm afraid Windows Vista was the final nail in the coffin for me. I had to buy a new laptop with 2GB of RAM just so I could run it at an acceptable speed, it didn't even come with MS Office (so I was using Open Office anyway) and it just seemed horribly complicated.

Ubuntu, by contrast, seems to be fairly easy to use and it 'just works', which is nice!