Refreshing myself with the basics of Kivy once more.
Best for API references.
https://kivy.org/doc/stable/guide/basic.html
It's possible to add some "scripting" to our kv files using the the pyexpander module.
This will allow us to have dynamic elements added to our kv files much like any html templating language (i.e. Jinja2)
I've found these tutorials a better way to get introduced to working with Kivy vs the official docs.
http://inclem.net/pages/kivy-crash-course/
https://github.com/inclement/kivycrashcourse
ECS seems like a very sound architecture for creating games. I like that it follows the seperation of concerns principle much like a typical MVC/MTV pattern widely used in web development.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
- https://austinmorlan.com/posts/entity_component_system/
- https://tsprojectsblog.wordpress.com/portfolio/entity-component-system/
- http://t-machine.org/index.php/2007/09/03/entity-systems-are-the-future-of-mmog-development-part-1/
- http://www.sebaslab.com/the-truth-behind-inversion-of-control-part-iii-entity-component-systems/
- http://www.sebaslab.com/the-truth-behind-inversion-of-control-part-iv-dependency-inversion-principle/
- http://www.sebaslab.com/ecs-design-to-achieve-true-inversion-of-flow-control/
- https://github.com/benmoran56/esper
- https://python-utilities.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ebs.html
- https://github.com/seanfisk/ecs
- https://github.com/kivy/KivEnt
KivEnt is a highly performant ECS game engine for Kivy. It appears to still be in active development however, if you're planning to release your kivy game for mobile, its p4a recipe is currently broken.
I've tried building it from the update_recipes branch of its source but it didn't work for me. I
might be able to make it work if I fix the sys.path issues (there's an error about unable to import
Kivy on the build step) I am getting but it is beyond my understanding at the moment.
Perhaps it would be nice to simply adopt its architecture using purely just Kivy?
Buildozer requires that you have a main.py as your application's entrypoint.
You will need to run the ff. commands from within your kivy project.
buildozer init
Then edit the buildozer.spec file.
buildozer -v android debug deploy run
When buildozer does not auto-install the Android SDKs
buildozer appclean
buildozer distclean
buildozer android debug