[stdlib-sig] A game in the standard library

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

On 08/16/2012 08:34 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le jeudi 16 août 2012 à 20:31 +0200, Christian Heimes a écrit :
>> Am 16.08.2012 17:43, schrieb Brett Cannon:
>>> So this is the kind of thing that would lead to arguments about "what
>>> game?" The general concept works for me, though if something can be
>>> agreed upon.
>>
>> Isn't it obvious to you? We are talking about Python! There is just one
>> mini game that fits:
>>
>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_%28video_game%29
>>
>> Yuval has mentioned Nibbles in his initial posting. Nibbles was a Snake
>> clone in QBasic that was shipped with MS DOS.
>
> The main issue IMHO is that snake was a well-known gaming reference in
> the 80s/early 90s, but it's not nowadays. Perhaps a "demonstration game
> in the stdlib" should mimick one of the popular games of today (a simple
> one obviously, not World of Warcraft :-)).

Angry Birds is clearly the answer :-).

Anyway, I guess such a game would belong more into the Demo directory?

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich