Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: dotbox
Version: 0.1.0
Summary: A mini library for block-based games
Home-page: http://metanohi.org/projects/dotbox/
Author: Niels Serup
Author-email: ns@metanohi.org
License: COPYING.txt
Description: 
        ======
        DotBox
        ======
        
        DotBox is a block-based game mini library. It greatly limits what is
        plausible.
        
        
        License
        =======
        
        DotBox is free software under the terms of the GNU General Public
        License version 3 (or any later version). The author of DotBox is
        Niels Serup, contactable at ns@metanohi.org. 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.
        
        
        Installing
        ==========
        
        Way #1
        ------
        Just run this (requires that you have python-setuptools installed)::
        
          $ sudo easy_install dotbox
        
        Way #2
        ------
        Get the newest version of DotBox at
        http://metanohi.org/projects/dotbox/ or at
        http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dotbox
        
        Extract the downloaded file and run this in a terminal::
        
          # python setup.py install
        
        Dependencies
        ============
        
        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
        
        
        Using
        =====
        
        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
        
        
        Example games
        -------------
        
        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.
        
        
        Usable colors
        -------------
        
        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.
        
        
        Developing
        ==========
        
        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
        
        
        This document
        =============
        
        Copyright (C) 2011  Niels Serup
        
        Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
        are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
        notice and this notice are preserved.  This file is offered as-is,
        without any warranty.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia :: Graphics
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: pygame
Classifier: Environment :: X11 Applications
Classifier: License :: DFSG approved
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Requires: pygame
