DotBox is a block-based game mini library. It greatly limits what is plausible.
DotBox is free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (or any later version). This is version 0.1.0 of the program.
All libraries used by DotBox are GPL-compatible. Any data used by the examples included in this package is as free as DotBox itself.
Run this in a terminal:
# python setup.py install
DotBox should work with both Python 2.6+ and Python 3.x.
DotBox depends on PyGame 1.8.1+ (perhaps earlier versions are also supported, though at least version 1.9.0 is needed for Python 3).
- For DEB-based distros (Debian etc.): type
apt-get install python-pygame
- For RPM-based distros (Fedora etc.): type
yum install pygame
- For other distros: do something similar or get it at http://pygame.org/download.shtml
DotBox is a mini library with little functionality. Its documentation is included in its source code, so you can run this command to find out more about it (as this /is/ a 0.1.0 release, not much is shown yet; to figure out how to use DotBox, take a look the included examples instead):
$ pydoc dotbox
Instead of the lacking documentation, you can also take a look at the example games in the examples
directory of this package. These games are playable.
DotBox uses a palette of 256 colors. The first 216 are the so-called "web-safe" colors (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-safe_color#Color_table ), while the remaining 40 are grayscale.
DotBox is written in Python and uses Git for branches. To get the latest branch, get it from gitorious.org like this:
$ git clone git://gitorious.org/dotbox/dotbox.git
Copyright (C) 2011 Niels Serup
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