Browser Games with Django (English)
Just looking through DjangoSites.org and Googling around, I'm absolutely puzzled by the lack of Django-based browser games. It is such an idea platform for developing these, yet there are only a few that are actually open to the public (some of which aren't in English, and are thus inaccessible to me). There seem to be a few games out there in French, Chinese, and some other things I don't really recognize, though.
Here are a few games in English I've been able to round up:
- My Dark Secret - A murder mystery game of some sorts.
- You Are Hunted - I'm not really sure :)
I'm particularly interested in anything open-source, as I'd love to contribute from time to time, but I'd love to hear of any playable games that I have missed, or any open-source games in development. As far as close-sourced games in development, they're not of much interest to me if they're at least not open for testing. Without access to the source or a reachable site, it's as good as vaporware (and many of them never see completion).
So speak up, let me know if there's something that I've completely missed!
Comments (4)
By Samuel on July 18, 2008 at 9:32 p.m.
I'm actually working on a django powered browser-based game right now. I haven't advertised it or let anyone else in the django world know about it, but I am working on it. It's an RPG, where you move around, fighting monsters, getting cool stuff, going on quests, the usual. Django has really helped with the back-end and ORM. Also the admin portal helps a lot for adding and editing content.
Sorry, but it's closed-source. However, there will be open testing once it's up. Just wanted to let you know that it's possible and at least one person is crazy enough to try and write a game w/ django.
Once testing has started, I'll be sure to put it on djangosites.
- Sam
By Greg on July 18, 2008 at 10:54 p.m.
@Samuel: That's good to hear, perhaps you can drop me a line when it opens for testing. I'd be interested to see Django used for that purpose.
By MadMike on July 28, 2008 at 5:21 p.m.
A few weeks ago I began learning django. I'm myself interested in creating a board game with django and I tried to find something to build on. Until now I came to the same conclusion as you did: Nothing available yet. In my dreams I'm allready building the perfect loose-coupled high-reusable gameing library. Maybe someday I'm going to write some code around it ;)
By Carl Meyer on July 18, 2008 at 10:38 a.m.
Hi Greg,
I have a web based clone of the Tigris & Euphrates boardgame over at http://tne.meyerbros.org that I wrote in PHP a few years back, but I've been planning to rewrite it in Django, just haven't gotten around to it. I know that doesn't quite fit what you're looking for, but if/when I get around to it the code will be open source.