08 August 2009 ~ 5 Comments

PyGame – Parallax Scrolling in 2D games

PyGame – Parallax Scrolling in 2D games

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 [...]

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22 July 2009 ~ 5 Comments

PyGame and Animated Sprites – Take 2

PyGame and Animated Sprites – Take 2

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

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