oversimplified

Pygame, I’ve gotta say, is an awesome thing.

I took a job at a local startup a couple of months ago; the Java project I was working on was getting more modular, and bigger, and was taking minutes and minutes to compile. The dead-stop finger drumming was really getting to me. I tried sketching in the in-between times, but nobody else was doing that so I self-consciously stopped and went back to staring at the screen. I watched the warnings go helplessly by.

The new place already had a lot of Python code; so after a couple of O’Reilly books I was ready to get to work.

Blender uses Python for scripting, so I already had half of an interest in it. The no punctuation thing worried me a little, and is the version 2/version 3 thing really a big deal?

Pygame is a library that lets you create multi-platform games, and once I got started I wished I’d taken the time to learn Python a long time ago. It’s a little bit like picking up a snap-together model after spending years gluing little plastic parts together.

So, I’m still working on the comic, but I’m compelled to turn this into something like this, except with better looking rats.