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step 015 - more sprites

Horst JENS — 2010-02-28T08:36:17+01:00

step 015 - more sprites ← previous ↑ Overview → next * missing: layeredUpdates discussion [screenshot from part2step015] In the code example below (see ) you can create and kill sprites by mouse click. For each kill there is an explosion effect: a sound plays and a random amount of fragments is flying around. The fragments are subject to a gravity force.

people

Raphael — 2010-02-11T17:54:25+01:00

The most wonderful aspect of the open-source world are the people you will meet as soon as you dive into it. This namespace page does not intend to be wp>facebook, but it is possible to create a page for each user where you link to your facebook page, homepage, twitter tweeds etc.

step 004 - colorkey

Raphael — 2010-02-11T17:48:50+01:00

← previous ↑ Overview → next discussion colorkey [screenshot pygame003.py The blue ball is blitted on a tranparent background] There is only one important line in this example to get rid of the ugly black corners of the blue ball surface: We declare the color black (0.0.0) as transparent.

part 1: programming with Python

Horst JENS — 2010-02-07T12:49:52+01:00

There exist various resources to learn programming with python. I suggest you read one of those first.

step 013 - catch the thief game

Horst JENS — 2010-01-29T19:26:34+01:00

← previous ↑ Overview → next how to play [screenshot from part2step013-catch-the-thief-game.py] This code example should teach nearly nothing new but instead put all the wisdom from the previous steps together to create a little game. In this catch-the-thief-game up to 2 players control sprites (the Pygame snake and the babytux bird) and are tasked to help the police (blue circle with white “P”) to catch a thief (red triangle with transparent “T”). To make the game interesting (and diff…

step 014 - pygame sprites

Horst JENS — 2010-01-27T22:07:44+01:00

← previous ↑ Overview → next discussion [many many sprites] If you analyse the previous catch-the-thief game you will notice that most code in the main loop take care of cleaning, calculating and blitting the pygame surfaces (the sprites). Pygame provide a very powerful pygame.sprite class for more elegant and object-oriented sprite programming.