Our first “real game<\/strong>” is a classic and is the Snake. In this classic game from the 80ies, you had to move a snake in a rectangular area to eat a fruit and as you go on with the game you become longer and faster. The problem is that you cannot hit the borders or yourself.<\/p>\n Let’s make something that could be the starting<\/strong> point for a lot of games: define a window<\/strong> that you can close.<\/p>\n This will initialize pygame<\/strong>, making everything work fine so that you can use things like fonts etc. To use the fonts you can also use pygame.font.init()<\/strong>, but using pygame.init() makes this not necessary.<\/p>\n There is also the pygame.display.set_caption(“Title”)<\/strong>\u00a0to give a name to the window. But we will do it later, maybe.<\/p>\n This is the frame rate<\/strong>. The higher<\/strong> it is the faster<\/strong> the window will be refreshed. Think to the game as a serious of frames<\/strong> (static pictures) that are updated<\/strong> on the screen one after another giving the sensation of movement (like the frames of a movie, if you take them one by one they are pictures that have little differences among them).<\/p>\n We will use the frame rate fps to increase the difficulty of the game.<\/p>\n This is the part that makes the sprite move<\/strong> and check if the user moves it, where the sprites are, if they collide, if the snake goes out of the screen. Now there is nothing of this. It just looks if the user clicks the quit button (the x of the window). If you do not write this code you cannot close the window without making the window crash.<\/p>\n If loop<\/strong> is True<\/strong> the window runs<\/strong>, when loop is false<\/strong> (you press quit button) the window quits<\/strong>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/snake202cover800x600.png\")
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<\/a>Create the window<\/h2>\n
import pygame\r\n\r\npygame.init()\r\nwindow = pygame.display.set_mode((400,400))\r\nclock = pygame.time.Clock()\r\nloop = True\r\nwhile loop:\r\n\tfor event in pygame.event.get():\r\n\t\tif event.type == pygame.QUIT:\r\n\t\t\tloop = False\r\npygame.quit()<\/pre>\n
Initialize the code with pygame.init()<\/h2>\n
pygame.init()<\/pre>\n
Window surface settings or display.set_mode(())<\/h2>\n
window = pygame.display.set_mode((400,400))<\/pre>\n
The time.Clock()<\/h2>\n
clock = pygame.time.Clock()<\/pre>\n
The loop… while loop<\/h2>\n
loop = True\r\nwhile loop:\r\n\tfor event in pygame.event.get():\r\n\t\tif event.type == pygame.QUIT:\r\n\t\t\tloop = False\r\npygame.quit()<\/pre>\n