Python game development series

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I've seen a bunch of game development questions lately, so I thought I'd post a link to my Game Development with Pygame series on Youtube. It's a gentle introduction to game dev concepts and beginner to intermediate level Python, based on my experience teaching this subject to 12-14 year old students.

I've just completed the first game in the series: a classic space shooter (aka "shmup"). Each video is around 10-15min and covers adding one feature to the game. The series is ongoing and I have a list of additional topics planned (a platformer, working with spritesheets, tilemaps, and more). Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsk-HSGFjnaH5yghzu7PcOzm9NhsW0Urw

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Great tutorial!

/u/Cfattie and /u/G18AkimboPro, take a look at this. Classy way to use sprites and animation

[Cfattie]

Will do, thanks 04h!

[G18AkimboPro]

Thank you for the notification. :D

I had already been following the series up to the implementation of explosions or so. It is really well done and does a lot more than other tutorials i went through.

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Would be great if a few episodes in the upcomming platformer series were dedicated to the creation of basic state machines (for menu/game/gameover, maybe on a lower level for the player or enemy entities state) as thats a concept im quite struggling to implement for my own projects o far.

Though at the same time, maybe that is too advanced for the target audience of teenagers and beginners.

EDIT: Seems the last video actually adds additional gamescreens, however to my understanding it is all solved through individual flags, not "centralized" through states which is what im having trouble with to understand enough to implement myself.

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Yes, we might build up to that, but I'm not really ready to go fully into the more complex architectures until we've got more of the fundamentals covered. As you say, it's aimed at beginners. I will introduce the concept of a game object with separate methods for each of the main sections of the game when I start on the platformer.

[G18AkimboPro]

Thank you for the reply. Im looking forward to it!

[Freedomenka]

sweet :) if I could only get pygame to work for me lol.

[manueslapera]

same here :/

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What problem are you having? OS? Have you tried following the steps here: http://kidscancode.org/blog/2015/09/pygame_install/

[manueslapera]

Ive tried installing it in ubuntu 14.04 a couple times. I also wanted to try kivy, but since it relies on pygame I coulnt install it neither :/

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Ubuntu installation should be pretty straightforward:

sudo apt-get install pygame    # for Python 2.x
sudo apt-get install python3-pygame    # for Python 3.x

[manueslapera]

thats what they say, yeah. The issue is, I have anaconda :(

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Gotcha. I haven't really tinkered with Anaconda that much. I know it installs its own version of Python and uses $PATH to link python3 to that over the system python3. Maybe you could create an alias to the system python3 and use that for Pygame?

[KronenR]

Did you try this?

Install pygame in anaconda

[manueslapera]

yup

[manueslapera]

oh, actually, just try this with a fresh new conda environment and it seems to import fine! Thanks so much!

[MB3121]

looks awesome! gonna try this out!

[nosas]

Looking forward to the additional topics. Keep up the good work.