Creating A Game With Pygame

Friday, August 8, 2014

Building Walls and Cleaning House - Pygame4

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In this article we will organize the code we have so far and add walls to our game. By the end of this article you will have all the tools you need to make a maze game!

Font Objects and Taking Inventory - Pygame3

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In this article we will create a small inventory that can hold up to 8 items. We will also discuss how to blit text to the display surface.

Items, Sounds, and Backgrounds - Pygame2

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In this article we will add items, add a background image(you can change it back to the solid green color later if you would like), talk about sprites, talk about sprite groups, and briefly discuss how to add sound effects.

Understanding the Player Class - Pygame1

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Download the Pygame0 folder for the code discussed in this article. In this tutorial I will go more in detail on the methods we added to the Player class previously. If you feel like you already understand the Player class, or simply do not care, feel free to skip to the next tutorial! No new features will be added in this article.

Introduction to Pygame - Pygame0

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Prerequisites for understanding these articles.

You will need to have Python 2.7 and the most recent version of Pygame installed on your computer to run the game we are making! I am using Python 2.7.7 and Pygame 1.9.1 in this article.
Basic knowledge of Python 2.7 is necessary to follow the progress of our game and to implement the various tools of Pygame in your own projects. If you have no prior experience using Python I highly recommend going to these sources to learn the basics.

Following the progress.

Every Pygame progress article I post will build upon the previous articles and will include new features, improvements, and updates to the current state of the code up to that point. To download the current state of the code click the link in the 'links relating to this topic' sidebar and then download the folder that corresponds with the number of the article you are currently viewing (e.g. pygame0, pygame2, etc.). For this article the folder you would download would be pygame0. This folder includes the current state of all the .py files (including any additions or modifications made in the current article), and all images and sounds used in the game.

We have plenty of work to do!

These articles have a lot of catching up to do! The most recent version of the game includes an inventory for the player (e.g. picking up the coins in the image above), a perspective view system which allows items to appear closer or farther from the screen relative to eachother, a combat system with health and mana, and AI interaction that allows the player to talk to other characters!