Physics sandbox is what it says on the tin. Its a 2D physics sandbox game creator based solely on pybox2d (box2D) and opencv with a dash of numpy and pysimplegui (theres no pygame, all the rendering is written from scratch).
You can create any realistic simulations and game scenarios of your choosing. Think of it as a of Gary's Mod. But not as good and only in 2D.
Its all come from stumbling across pybox2d. And is just a project to see what I am capable of.
There are bugs. But it works pretty well, I've never studied game development and don't really know what I'm doing in that respect.
Its only tested fully in Linux (although all libraries used are cross platform, its not been tested on a mac)
I've managed to unfaithfully create a whole host of games which you can load.
Give them a go, and find out for your self.
(If you have an engineering degree I think you might make something more creative than me)
Having an understanding of 2D game physics and box2D would help but there are tonnes of tutorials below, all video based.
Apologies if I'm not so clear and concise in the videos - theres a lot to cover and the best way to learn is to just try it for your self.
I suggest at minimum watching the first 3 tutorials, but you could get by and have fun with just the first one.
1 - Basic Usage (block creation)
2 - Joint Creation (joining blocks)
MAKING ANGRY BIRDS FROM SCRATCH
If you've got git installed its easy.
Just open a console or command prompt and navigate to a folder that you wish to install it in.
Then type
git clone http://www.github.com/lewis-morris/physicsSandbox
cd physicsSandbox
pip install -r requirements.txt
python run.py
I've put in so much time to this project its time to move on, but if you find a glaring bug or have a great idea. Let me know. I'm not adverse to improving things.
And if people enjoy it then why not make it better?
Submit a pull request and maybe I'll add it to the repo.
If any one wants to contact me directly its [email protected]
