Pygame Guide for Sneks

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Introduction

"Where can I learn how to use pygame?" - one of the most commonly asked questions that I get. But we always struggle to answer. We sometimes point them to the docs and examples, but that isn't a comprehensive guide on building good pygame-based applications. There are many other tutorials and guides we have found, but we always find something lacking. There are many comments we give and many nitpicks we have - so much so that some of us gathered and decided to put all of them into a book. This book.

Table of contents

Working towards a simple platformer

  1. Base setup and opening a window
  2. Drawing shapes
  3. Moving things
  4. Loading images and drawing them
  5. Using classes to better contain our code
  6. Loading and playing audio files
  7. Making a small game to demonstrate how these go together

Important topics

  1. Fonts in pygame
  2. Colors in pygame

Obscure but useful things

  1. PixelArray
  2. Blend modes
  3. pygame.display.set_mode flags

Useful Stuffs

You can visit the pygame documentation to find the full list of functions and other information about the Pygame library.

Pygame Examples

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