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The Art of Doing: Video Game Basics with Python and Pygame
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The Art of Doing: Video Game Basics with Python and Pygame

Learn all you need to know to begin making your own simple and fun arcade style games!
Created byMichael Eramo
Last updated 1/2023
English
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What you'll learn

  • Fundamentals of the Pygame library and overall video game design.
  • How to create Pygame surfaces and draw on them.
  • How to blit (copy) images and render text.
  • How to add sound effects and music to your games.
  • How to handle user input via keyboard and mouse for game controls.
  • How to perform collision detection using pygame Rects.

Course content

2 sections • 11 lectures • 1h 57m total length

  • Creating Our Display Surface9:48

    Create a pygame display surface as the game window, initialize pygame, set window size constants, and implement a main game loop with event handling.

  • Drawing On Our Display Surface15:21

    Define colors as rgb tuples and fill the display surface to draw lines, circles, and rectangles with pygame.draw and update the display with pygame.display.update.

  • Blitting (copying) Images11:46

    Learn to load images as surfaces, obtain their rects, and blit them onto the display surface in Pygame, with the main loop updating the screen.

  • Blitting (copying) Text11:49

    Learn to display text in pygame by rendering text with both system and custom fonts, creating text surfaces, positioning them with rects, blitting to the display, and updating the screen.

  • Adding Sound Effects and Music11:38

    Learn to add sound effects and background music in Pygame by loading audio assets, controlling playback with the mixer, setting volumes, and looping music for immersive gameplay.

  • Discrete Keyboard Movement12:06

    Move a dragon on screen with discrete movement using pygame by handling key down events, updating a velocity-based rect position, and redrawing each frame.

  • Mouse Movement11:16

    Learn to move a dragon sprite with the mouse in pygame by handling mouse button down and mouse motion events, including centering on click and left button drag.

  • Continuous Keyboard Movement13:54

    Learn to implement continuous keyboard movement in Pygame by holding arrows to move a dragon, using key.get_pressed, a velocity setting, and a clock to cap frames per second at 60.

  • Movement Restrictions1:49

    Enforce movement bounds by checking the dragon's rect: allow left, right, up, and down moves only when the sprite stays within screen edges.

  • Collision Detection17:16

    Explore collision detection in pygame by using rect collision to detect when the dragon overlaps a coin, then move the coin to a new random position.

Requirements

  • Basic Python/computer science understanding.

Description

Have you learned the fundamentals of Python and then asked yourself; what's next?

If so, consider taking this course which will start you on your journey to making your own playable, fun, and rather addicting video games using Python and the Pygame library. 

So often, when students ask for advice they are told to, "Go build something" or "Get involved on a project" but have no idea what projects to build or get involved in.

This course will set you on your way! In this course I will walk you though, step by step, the fundamentals of video game design with Python and Pgyame.  We will cover all of the basics including:

  • Concepts of the main game loop, frames per second, and a clock.

  • Creating a surface and drawing to it.

  • Blitting (copying) images and rendering text to a surface.

  • Adding sound effects and music.

  • Handling keyboard and mouse input for player movement and control.

  • Basic collision detection methods


By the end of this course, I hope for two things:

  1. You will want to continue learning and consider about Pygame and Python and enroll in the full course!

  2. Have the confidence and knowledge to begin making your own basic arcade style games with Python!


Good luck and I hope to see you in our next video!

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner Python developers curious about video game design and the Pygame library.
  • Beginner Python developers who have a love for classic style arcade games.

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