“But can it run Doom?”
Some time ago now, a colleague and I were running a coding workshop for young people, using Pytch. We were talking with the club’s facilitator about Pytch, and he asked the age-old question: But can it run Doom? The obvious answer was “no, sorry, this is just a 2D system”, but the question nagged at me, and eventually I put some time into thinking properly about whether Pytch could do something which was a bit like Doom. It could! Background Pytch is a system for teaching people Python coding, providing an environment which is very close to MIT’s Scratch. The graphical output consists of two-dimensional “sprites”, which can wear “costumes” of the coder’s choosing and appear at a chosen location,
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