So the day before yesterday I had grand plans to get PyGame working on my computer and start learning to make graphics work. Then I fell asleep at my computer at 6 PM, right after dinner, and didn’t wake up until 7:30 AM when my video phone beeped that the morning town news had arrived.

Even with a ridiculous 13 hours of sleep under my belt, I was tired all day and my brain was running in slug mode. I’ve been feeling a bit off since Tuesday, and since I haven’t felt truly sick, I can only conclude that my body is belated feeling the aftereffects of my hour and a half out in the train station parking lot digging my car out from under a meter of snow. I went on a business trip last Tuesday, leaving my car parked there because I didn’t expect raging blizzards, and then weather  life prevented me from going to get the car until Monday.

I did not crash last night, but my brain still wasn’t up to reading documentation, really. I did get a chance to talk to a friendly acquaintance who has experience programming in Python for games and otherwise  last night, though. I got to pick his brain a bit before he went to bed, and ended up deciding to go with Pyglet instead of PyGame. I didn’t get very far in playing with it before my brain let loose with a bold-italic stream of symbols like you’d see in comic book dialogue, but I got Pyglet installed and it seems to be working. So I might not do a text adventure after all! 😀

That said… I’m still installing Ren’Py as a backup. xD

So! Official declaration: I plan to use Pyglet and/or Ren’Py.

Signing off. *murloc noise*

Tags: compo, python, tools