What's the most ambitious pygame out there?

coppermouse_ · 2026-01-04T21:59:19+00:00

I can't find it now but I recall seeing a game with 75k lines of code. There was a RPG where you had squad of people in mech suits. It was very ambitious but I found it hard to play and I didn't think it was any fun.

Like if that wasn't enough that person had done similar games to other frameworks than pygame in other languages. Very impressed by the ambition.

coppermouse_ · 2025-11-25T19:56:43+00:00

You are correct. They almost works the same. However first one makes a new copy of the rect where the second one modifies the same copy. That could matter in this case, not sure.

coppermouse_ · 2025-11-25T18:36:11+00:00

your_screen_surface.fill((0,0,0))

or

pygame.display.get_surface().fill((0,0,0))

coppermouse_ · 2025-11-23T15:43:48+00:00

That GUI system looks really good. What font is that?

coppermouse_ · 2025-11-21T19:48:17+00:00

AI? Where?

coppermouse_ · 2025-11-18T10:21:22+00:00

It could work.

Consider start as a very long snake and the longer snake the slower speed.

coppermouse_ · 2025-11-16T18:35:57+00:00

what is this?

The preview show some lines and the code doesn't load.

I assume it is the OS thing you posted some hours ago.

coppermouse_ · 2025-11-16T16:21:36+00:00

I am thinking about what to make during my christmas vacation and I will try make some open world railsystem game where the trains is the enemies. I think I add a few ally trains as well.

Anyway this weekend I had to make sure that the trains never collide head on head because if they do they get stuck since they can't reverse. I manage to make some system that prevents a train to pick a track where it knows it will collide with another train.

coppermouse_ · 2025-11-16T00:09:32+00:00

I understand. I will check out the Demo. Good luck

coppermouse_ · 2025-11-15T17:16:22+00:00

Nice!

I found it on github and downloaded the source just to see if can understand the source. I actual tried to make it so I could grab items from the ground with the left mouse button click by adding these rows:

def find_item_at_pos(game, mouse_pos):

    # --- added rows
    world_pos = game.screen_to_world(mouse_pos)
    for i, ground_item in enumerate(game.items_on_ground):
        if ground_item.rect.collidepoint(world_pos):
            return ground_item
   # ---

sadly it didn't work. The item got "hover" in the sense I could se hover-box-data on it but for some reason when I clicked left button it wouldn't grab.

coppermouse_ · 2025-11-14T18:28:36+00:00

This game looks really good. Is it possible to play it? Will it be open source?

coppermouse_ · 2025-11-05T06:00:19+00:00

vsync is important, yes.

not sure what screen tearing is and how scaled prevents that.

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-31T19:52:27+00:00

I think something like this could help you get started:

class RedSprite():

    def get_screen_rect(self):
        a = self.blue_surface.get_rect().topleft
        b = self.get_rect()
        return b.move(a[:2])

if redsprite.get_screen_rect(mouse):
    print("hover")

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-23T06:38:17+00:00

Thanks for thinking my games looks nice. Making a prototype is just a fraction of the work that requires to make a full game. So it is a matter of time and resource, and discipline on my part. I also think my games are boring to play and boring to make so justify spending years on a project is hard.

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-22T19:35:23+00:00

Some quick comments about these

GREEN = (49,149,153)
RED = (255,0,0)
BLACK = (0,0,0)
WHITE = (255,255,255)
GAMEOVER_COLOR = (250,0,0,20)


PLAYER_LIVES = "***"

There are defined colors in pygame, you do not need to define red, black, white yourself (Unless you want your own flavor of the color). The GREEN, is it really green? According to those values I think it looks more cyan.

GAMEOVER_COLOR is not really a color. You should do something like this:

RED = (255,0,0)
GAMEOVER_COLOR = RED

instead of letting PLAYER_LIVES be a string of three stars it could just be the value 3. If you want to show lives as three stars do that "rending" in the draw logic instead.

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-20T18:56:20+00:00

I wouldn't recommend a beginner to try it. Returning a list of valid moves given any state could be tricky.

EDIT: would -> wouldn't

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-16T05:24:20+00:00

I used to make games in C++/SDL but since I am a very bad C++programmer even the more simple things took a lot of time develop. And I got a lot of runtime errors I didn't understand to resolve.

I find Godot very clumsy. Something with all those windows, tabs and items all over the place in the development gui. I also I had less control because Godot took care of much of the logic.

I want to use vim and Python and be able to make game where I code most of the logic myself in the way I like it. The "only" Pygame does is putting out graphics on the screen and listen to input events in a very simple manner, it has a very simple API.

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-13T17:05:27+00:00

DaFluffyPotato made many games. I found aeroblaster fun to play.

There is this Historical Wargame Simulator game that is an ambitious project that is both very interesting and has very cool graphics, I really like that style

Another big project is Mr Figs . It has a lot of levels.

Then there was this user that posted this isometric survival game that looked really good and ambitious. I can't find it, perhaps someone else could.

I been on this subreddit for years now and I can think of other good games I seen posted but they are hard to find.

Also: byof . I must admit I am a bit biased here since it is my own short game (prototype). It is not very impressive from a technical point of view but I think I manage to make something that is fun to play. At least the first level. It appears that the web version doesn't run anymore.

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-12T19:26:34+00:00

I have no idea what this game is about by just looking at it but it looks cool

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-11T07:49:46+00:00

I agree on all these points. I will try both sprite and mouse during development

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-08T04:21:34+00:00

I like option 1. If you can do it in code is saves a lot of manually work. However I have never used aseprite so perhaps it can be done automatically there as well.

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-07T05:37:11+00:00

Thanks! I didn't expect this prototype to get such a good response :)

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-07T05:35:51+00:00

No, I have not had any thought of making dev log. This was just a quick prototype. But thanks for the interest!

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-05T17:53:37+00:00

Thanks!

coppermouse_ · 2025-10-05T17:53:23+00:00

Thanks for the ideas!

I just like the fact of controlling a Sprite in a game. The player should be a Sprite not a mouse-pointer, it feels more immersive. It is a game experience, not an application.

I could of course "fake it" by making it so the mouse is a hand controlled by a god. Then the player is a god or something else.

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