#game-making

Starting a New Game - Space Shooter See the previous parts linked at the bottom of this post if you haven't already. Apologies for how long it's taken me to post this, next part in the series, but I've

Adding a Score Timer and Finishing off the Game See the previous parts linked at the bottom of this post if you haven't already. We're going to start by creating a score attribute in the Player class that

Adding Lives and a Score Timer to the Game See the previous parts linked at the bottom of this post if you haven't already. In the previous part, we simplified our code somewhat by making the Player and

Refactoring the Sprites to Inherit from the Pygame Sprite Class See the previous parts linked at the bottom of this post if you haven't already. So following on from my realisation in the previous part

Adding Alien Sprites and Collision Detection See the previous parts linked at the bottom of this post if you haven't already. In this part we're going to add some alien sprites which will move randomly

Adding Player Controls to a Sprite See the previous parts linked at the bottom of this post if you haven't already. We're going to start with a slightly different version of the code, with the ball code

Refactor the Sprite into Its Own Class See the previous parts linked at the bottom of this post if you haven't already. In this session we're going to refactor the ball into its own class, and then instantiate

Adding Some Moving Sprites See the previous parts linked at the bottom of this post if you haven't already. We'll start by just loading in a ball png, which measures 50 x 50 pixels. In this post we'll

Refactoring Our Code into a MainWindow Class See the previous parts linked at the bottom of this post if you haven't already. In this part we're going to change our code from Part 2 so that we have a basic

Creating a Blank Window See Part 1 of this guide for how to get set up with an up-to-date version of Pygame and how to check that it works: Game Making with Python and Pygame Part 1 Creating a window using

Getting Set Up with Python and Pygame Over the years I've delivered various workshops introducing teachers and others to use Pygame to create games. Many recent workshops have included me using PygameZero

SpatialOS cloud platform for the next generation of multiplayer games Screenshots Hunter's comment so this is kinda wild, kinda like running your own game company but in the cloud. so it's basically a