Pygame multiple user inputs

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I'm trying to develop a team based asteroids type game. Its going well except for the multiple user inputs to a single machine... Can anyone recommend a method for getting and updating 6 players using a single computer? is it even possible? at the moment I'm working with a couple of old XBox controllers and a keyboard and its almost working...

is it possible to add additional keyboards?

and would you arrange the code into one big get events function or is there a better way to check for user inputs at this scale?

Cheers,

john dikeman · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-16 14:55:06Z

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I've never seen anyone try to connect multiple keyboards to an application, so I don't really think that it's possible, sadly. However, pygame does have a pretty rad Joystick module that you can use to initialize as many controllers as you like. I would recommend making a Player object for each one, then calling joystickObject.getAxis(axisIndex) every loop to get the data. You'll just have to figure out the axis/button indexes for the controller. I'm currently working on a project with multiple controllers, so let me know if you need any specific help!

answered Jan 16, 2015 at 14:55

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