{"id":760,"date":"2018-07-24T21:37:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/?p=760"},"modified":"2019-08-17T22:10:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T20:10:57","slug":"python-making-a-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pythonprogramming.altervista.org\/python-making-a-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Python: let’s make a game (Pygame zero)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making a game with pygame zero<\/h2>\n

\"Logo\"<\/p>\n

Pygame zero<\/strong> is a very interesting project that allows to use the pygame<\/a> module in an easy way, so that you can concentrate on the logic of the game, instead of a long learning process that may discourage the users from creating a game. It’s a good tool to introduce to computer logic, I think, through games, but it is also very powerful, as you will check by yourself, looking at the examples of games made with Pygame zero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Instructions<\/a><\/p>\n

In this video I will tell you how to start making a game with pygame zero. First you have to install the modules and then with a couple of line you can see something moving on the screen. Really nice way to start learning how to make a videogame.<\/p>\n

How to install pgzero<\/h2>\n

To install pygame zero<\/strong> or pgzero, in the cmd (windows button + r and then ‘cmd’) write:<\/p>\n

pip install pgzero<\/pre>\n
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This way you will install also pygame and other modules that pgzero uses.<\/p>\n
To run the code you have to write:<\/p>\n
pgzrun intro.py<\/pre>\n
where intro.py is the name of the file you created.<\/p>\n
Run the code from Sublime or IDLE<\/h2>\n
If you want to start the program from an IDE (or from sublimeRepl) you have to import pgzrun as the first line of code and write at the last line of code pgzrun.go() like in the following example.<\/p>\n
# this can run using python filename.py\r\n\r\nimport pgzrun\r\nWIDTH = HEIGHT = 300\r\n\r\ndef draw():\r\n\tscreen.clear()\r\n\tscreen.draw.circle((WIDTH\/\/2,HEIGHT\/\/2), 30, 'white')\r\n\r\npgzrun.go()<\/pre>\n
There it is… a circle!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n
Pygame zero: how to make a window<\/a> (previous post about this topic)<\/p>\n
Move that circle<\/h2>\n
We could make that circle move… using pygame too, why not? Here’s the code where we can move the circle moving the mouse… just a couple of lines and the use of<\/p>\n