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IUplog has a nice featurelist, but it is disappointing in various performance issues.

Can anybody recommend a hosted blogging system?

Haven't posted in a month, so here is an update.

Pitchers Duel may be reliant on accelerated video cards.

Use the v 0.1 version of Ocemp GUI with Lamina.

Profiling the batter demo has been revealing...

Its been over a month since the last post, and lest you think the project is abandoned....

Yesterday, a bug fix release of Lamina went online. Lamina is a library allowing use of SDL/Pygame raster operations within OpenGL displays. This can be very useful with respect to GUI libraries.

A nice technique for preventing important visual details from fading into the distance is to outline them using point or line entities.

We have a new member on the Pitcher's Duel development team. Keith has offered to do audio editing, to produce a few different bat sounds for different contact types.

Now that my Pygame GUI comparison is AFAIK complete, and because this comparison accounts for a significant amount of blog traffic, I am providing a consolidated index to all of the blog posts here regarding Pygame GUIs.

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Summary of the results of my request for Batter Demo playtesters: The hittability, to my relief, is much improved, but various lesser playability issues remain.

The Pitchers Duel project is creating a physical-skill based game simulating the sport of Baseball. We need some specialized support, in 3d graphics, and in audio editing.

Pygame has support for OpenGL, and also has good GUI libraries, but does not really allow both at once. Lamina is a library to facilitate using GUIs in OpenGL displays. It provides a surface attribute for raster drawing, and a display method for rendering in OpenGL.

My release last week of the Lamina library seems to have drawn some interest, so here is an improved, cleaned up, better documented version.

see prior post

Pygame has support for OpenGL, and also has good GUI libraries, but does not really allow both at once. Lamina is a library to facilitate using GUIs in OpenGL displays.

A couple of days ago, I put a demo online of the batter interface for Pitcher's Duel, and asked people to spend a few minutes testing it, and reporting to me how it worked for them.

The demo has been downloaded a couple dozen times, but *nobody* has said anything. If you were one of those folks that downloaded and tested it, I need to hear from you. That is the whole point of trying the demo.

The demo is less than a complete game, and isn't entertaining for more than a few minutes. If you do not benefit the project by reporting how it worked, then the whole exercise of downloading and testing was a waste.

dkeeney@travelbyroad.net

A baseball simulation game needs play-testers. If you play computer video games under Windows, and have a half hour or so to spare assisting a fledgling open-source game project, I would appreciate your help.

Upgrading the PGU library to version 0.10.2 involved some changes to the example, but also enabled some features not previously possible.

The Ocemp GUI Evaluation Example source