GuitarHero/RockBand fans... side project anyone?

[Arjan]

On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 14:52:10 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 13 December 2013 00:38, Arjan <arjan at ask.me.to> wrote:
>
>> Have you heard of Frets on Fire? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>>>> Frets_on_Fire
>>>> I remember trying this out several years ago, though it 
>>>> didn't really
>>>> have
>>>> that smoothe Guitar Hero feel.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, it's fucking terrible. It's also written in Java, which 
>>> might partly
>>> explain the first bit...
>>>
>>
>> I'm pretty sure it has been written in python (to prove one 
>> could write
>> games using python), also there is FoFix a (better?) clone 
>> also python.
>>
>> My kids do play FoFix from time to time. But nothing beats 
>> minecraft.
>>
>
> Oh yeah, you're probably right. I just remembered that it 
> wasn't written in
> a real language ;)
> It doesn't feel very tight, and the synchronisation window is 
> super wide. I
> suspect this is because the libraries they use aren't really 
> meant for
> low-latency real-time use, and they have no access to the 
> hardware/drivers
> directly, so they have to allow for a huge margin of error.

I have no idea what is required for a game like that, but I've 
been on a project where python is used in machine control (wafer 
handling) at control frequencies / sampling rates up to 100Hz. 
Although 100Hz was not achieved easily. Indeed no direct access 
to hw/drivers from python it usually goes through c-wrappers.