How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do not think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Swing", A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
This is a prototype using Pygame of a puzzle platformer that I plan to port to the NES once it's done. It stars a character who compensates for his lack of lower limbs by carrying a grappling hook and using it to swing from whatever object is above him.
To prepare, install Python 3.6 and Pygame. Under Windows, for example, once you have installed Python, you can install Pygame with the following commands at a command prompt:
py -m pip install --upgrade pip
py -m pip install pygame
Then run the file wbb.py.
Full usage instructions are in how.html.
Pygame uses SDL 1.2. When exporting a replay as a video, the game
uses pygame.image.tostring() to capture the video to an RGB byte
string and then feed it to FFmpeg. (See enlarger.py.) I know of
two SDL 2-based replacements for Pygame, neither of which has any
counterpart to pygame.image.tostring()
PySDL2 docs state:
tostring(): No equivalent yet
The README for the Ren'Py project's [pygame_sdl2][2] states:
Current omissions include:
APIs that expose pygame data as buffers or arrays.
License choice is pending.