python web based game

Question

I was wondering if it is possible to implement a web based game in python. I have searched the internet and cannot seem to find any tutorial or document pointing to this. Any advice will be appreciated..

• jhocking: The clarification you gave in the comments below you should mention up here in the original question.

Answer 1

Your question is a bit vague but from what I understand you are trying to create a web based game with Python.

As python is a serverside language you could implement the website/server with it but for the client and the game itself you will need a browser based client-side technology. Like Flash, Silverlight, WEBGL or Even Javascript and HTML5. But this will all depend on how you would like to structure your game.

You could create a Server that pushes information to the clients with a library with say Twisted. The other option you could choose is to create a website that the clients will poll for information or use Comet for Push.

Answer 2

These are the only ways I know to "directly" code in python for the web :

• Pyjamas which is a python to pyjamas compiler. See this asteroid example (buggy on Chrome). I made one myself and simple stuffs are working well but you can't display text on the canvas at the moment. And i guess It would be much slower than pure javascript.

• IronPython with Silverlight and here a tutorial.

• Panda3D and its plugin, so you'll have to ask the players to download that plugin.

Answer 3

Of course it is. But without more information on what type of game it is impossible to provide further guidance.

• user559611: I have implemented a simple tetris game in python using pygame and am wondering if there is anyway I could run it in a browser.I dont mind having to use anyother tool other than pygame
• Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: Stuff that runs on the client side needs to be in a client-side language. pyjs.org

Answer 4

Python is a serverside language. For the "web" in web-based you still need HTML und JS (or Flash). Using Python for the serverside is possible. Here is a list of Python web frameworks (my personal favorite is Django).

Answer 5

Python can be used in a variety of ways for developing web games. In particular, it can be very useful for doing the back-end of a multiplayer game. For the front-end you will probably need to use a client-side technology like Flash, but there have been turn-based games that simply use static HTML as the front-end (for example, Urban Dead) and that could be implemented in Python alone without a separate client-side technology.