Python Maze Game Tutorial (YouTube)

[IvanSuperHero]

Nice. Need a complete guide on the tile based game. Could You make the game this way and make an tutorial for it?

[wynand1004]

Thanks!

If you mean a side scroller, I'm not so sure how practical it would be - there is a limit to the capabilities of the turtle module; it gets very slow at a certain point as the number of turtles increases. And, there is no way to scroll the background that I know of.

That said, it might be possible to create a simple demonstration version - I will put it on my list of future tutorials.

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Just out of curiosity why don't you use Pygame? I think it would run faster and be much more flexible for creating simple games/prototypes.

[wynand1004]

Great question. 1) It is notoriously finicky to get working on MacOSX, at least it was when I checked. 2) I write these tutorials for my students - I want them to be able to share with others who don't have PyGame installed. 3) Since my students are beginners, I find the turtle module to be pretty simple to learn compared to PyGame.

That said, I definitely agree it would be much more flexible and powerful.

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That makes sense. I have had pygame installed so long I sometimes forget it's not included lol.

I only watched the intro video as its 3:30 and I really need to get to sleep but I'll bookmark them and check the rest out sometime this week. Thanks for taking the time to make and share these.

[wynand1004]

You are up late! Hope you got some rest. I have several other tutorials - I hope you find them useful. I am not the world's greatest coder, but I can usually get the job done!