So, I created a dedicated repository on github to host the source code of my PyGame Tutorials Serie You can clone all the tutorials using the following command : [sourcecode language='python'] git clone git://github.com/ncrovatti/Pygame-Tutorials.git [/sourcecode] You can also browse the complete sources and ressources from the github repository if you prefer. Eventually you will be [...]
Introduction To continue further into my PyGame exploration articles and tutorials, I’ll try to come up with a complete Shmup game as example. I already covered Animated sprites and Parallax Scrolling in 2D games as a start you can look at the PyGame tutorials list page to see them all. The goal of this article [...]
Hi fellow reader, to start this article let me define what Parallax Scrolling is : Parallax scrolling is a special scrolling technique in computer graphics, seen first in the 1982 arcade game Moon Patrol. In this pseudo-3D technique, background images move by the “camera” slower than foreground images, creating an illusion of depth in a [...]
I made a demo to better illustrate the topic covered in my previous post : PyGame and Animated Sprites Here’s a screenshot of the application : Download the Source code of the demo : explosion-spritetar.tar.gz
An animated sprite is a serie of the same image slightly modified and displayed at a certain framerate per second. Sample 5 frames Sprite representation: —————————————– | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | | 16×16 | 16×16 | 16×16 | 16×16 | 16×16 | | | | | | | —————————————– [...]
Hello dear Shiny reader, I just started learning Python a couple weeks ago. Well, I’m amazed. Pyhton’s Oriented Object Model is really flawless from my point of view. Multi-Heritance is like bottled awesomeness. As a start project, I’m currently building a 2D RTS game/simulation named Gama using PyGame and GameObjects while following extremely good tutorials [...]
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