Slither - slither from Scratch to Python easily

Tymewalk

(click to go to GitHub repo)

It's a Python module that uses PyGame to provide Scratch-like features in Python. It's intended for those new to Python who've used Scratch before, or are trying to make sense of PyGame.

Currently the project is in its early stages, although here's a rough feature list so far:

Easy-to-use sprite system
Stage and sprite costumes
Growing, shrinking, and moving sprites
Rotation just like Scratch's
Basic sound support
Easy ways to display text
Mouse and keyboard methods, for managing keys pressed and the cursor (thanks @BookOwl!)
Collision detection

You can install it with

pip install slither

or you can check the latest “development version” on GitHub.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Last edited by Tymewalk (Sept. 12, 2016 14:31:37)

Jonathan50

Nice idea.

BookOwl

Sounds great!

Last edited by BookOwl (April 1, 2016 20:22:24)

Tymewalk

Jonathan50 wrote:
Nice idea.

BookOwl wrote:
Sounds cool.

Thanks - I'm currently working on a small test to make sure it works. I'll post the results here.

Tymewalk

Tymewalk wrote:
Jonathan50 wrote:
Nice idea.
BookOwl wrote:
Sounds cool.
Thanks - I'm currently working on a small test to make sure it works. I'll post the results here.

It works! Just 2 problems:

You can't set the stage's background color
There's no easy way to detect quitting the program

I'm fixing them now.

flutehamster

Cool idea…

DrKat123

Forking the repo

firefang16

Wow! Sounds really neat. I've always wanted to use Python, but never have.

Tymewalk

firefang16 wrote:
Wow! Sounds really neat. I've always wanted to use Python, but never have.

Thanks!
Once it has some more features I recommend you look up a simple Python introduction and then try it out - currently it's not much

DrKat123 wrote:
Forking the repo

If you make some changes, make a pull request and I'll add them in!

Last edited by Tymewalk (March 12, 2016 17:11:07)

Tymewalk

Tymewalk wrote:
Tymewalk wrote:
Jonathan50 wrote:
Nice idea.
BookOwl wrote:
Sounds cool.
Thanks - I'm currently working on a small test to make sure it works. I'll post the results here.
It works! Just 2 problems:
You can't set the stage's background color
There's no easy way to detect quitting the program
I'm fixing them now.

Finally I set the stage's background color. So that works now.
Next up is making some better sprite go-to blocks! Additionally, expanding costume support!

theonlygusti

I don't know if the name fits perfectly, look at the order it all seems to have followed:

SmallTalk
Squeak
Scratch
??? (gaping wound)

Dylan5797

Already have been working on something called pysd for the last few months.

It compiles to scratch, I might embed phosphorus like blob8108 did with tosh.

screenshot:

Last edited by Dylan5797 (March 13, 2016 17:25:36)

Icely

Dylan5797 wrote:
Already have been working on something called pysd for the last few months.

It compiles to scratch, I might embed phosphorus like blob8108 did with tosh.

screenshot:

Looks cool!

Tymewalk

theonlygusti wrote:
I don't know if the name fits perfectly, look at the order it all seems to have followed:

SmallTalk
Squeak
Scratch
??? (gaping wound)

I named it Hiss because cats Scratch and pythons Hiss (yes I know it's a terrible pun).
So… Slither then?

Dylan5797 wrote:
Already have been working on something called pysd for the last few months.

It compiles to scratch, I might embed phosphorus like blob8108 did with tosh.

screenshot:

Looks pretty cool! Do you have a link? I might be able to help.

Dylan5797

Tymewalk wrote:
theonlygusti wrote:
I don't know if the name fits perfectly, look at the order it all seems to have followed:

SmallTalk
Squeak
Scratch
??? (gaping wound)
I named it Hiss because cats Scratch and pythons Hiss (yes I know it's a terrible pun).
So… Slither then?
Dylan5797 wrote:
Already have been working on something called pysd for the last few months.

It compiles to scratch, I might embed phosphorus like blob8108 did with tosh.

screenshot:
Looks pretty cool! Do you have a link? I might be able to help.

Not yet, the compiler doesn't parse sprite decorators yet, so everything gets screwed up during compiling, also, when I turn on the syntax highlighting, everything goes wonky.

I think I might keep this private for now, at least until I get stuff working ok.

Sorry.

I'll keep you in mind if I need help, although I'm writing it in JavaScript.

Tymewalk

Just merged the namedCostume branch. Costumes now have names!
You can still use the costume numbers, and you can delete costumes.

Tymewalk

I'm reviewing the remaining 4 items in #2.

Next costume - I don't think this is really required.
Default costume - How about a snake?
Go to front/Go back () layers - At this point, are these really the top priority?

Also, I'm renaming the repo to Slither. So prepare for those changes!

Tymewalk

I made a mascot!

His name is Snakey since that's what I saved the file as.

BookOwl

Tymewalk wrote:
I made a mascot!

His name is Snakey since that's what I saved the file as.

Looks cool!

MooShoeGaming

Sounds like SmallBasic, which is what I learned to go from Scratch to C#.

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