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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 is [...]

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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 2D [...]

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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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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:
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|   1   |   2   |   3   |   4   |   5  |
| 16×16 | 16×16 | 16×16 | 16×16 | 16×16 |
|       |       |       |       |      |
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For a  given framerate set [...]

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