How-To Example Code

Starting Templates

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Starting Template Using Window Class

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Platformer Template

Drawing

Drawing Primitives

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Happy Face

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Drawing Primitives

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Drawing with Functions

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Drawing Text

Drawing with Loops

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Drawing with Loops

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Draw a Box with Nested Loops

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Bottom Left Triangle

Animating Drawing Primitives

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Bouncing Rectangle

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Bouncing Shapes

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Radar Sweep

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Falling Snow

Faster Drawing with ShapeElementLists

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ShapeElementList Explanation

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Using a Vertex Buffer Object With Lines

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Shape List - Skylines

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Gradients Example

Sprites

Sprite Player Movement

../_images/sprite_collect_coins.png

Collect Coins - Mouse

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Sprite Move By Keyboard

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Better Move By Keyboard

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Acceleration and Friction

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Sprite: Face Left or Right

../_images/sprite_collect_coins.png

Game Controller/Joystick

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Move Sprites By Angle

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Dual Stick Shooter

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Turn and Move

Sprite Non-Player Movement

../_images/sprite_collect_coins_move_down.png

Collect Coins Moving Down

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Collect Coins that are Bouncing

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Sprite Bouncing Coins

../_images/sprite_collect_coins_move_circle.png

Collect Coins that are Moving in a Circle

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Animated Sprites

Sprite Pathing

../_images/follow_path1.png

Sprites That Follow a Path

../_images/sprite_follow_simple.png

Sprites That Follow The Player

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Sprites That Follow The Player 2

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Line of Sight

../_images/astar_pathfinding1.png

A-Star Path Finding

Sprite Properties

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Hit Points and Health Bars

../_images/sprite_properties.png

Sprite Properties

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Change coins

Games with Levels

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Different Levels of Clearing Coins

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Moving Between Different Rooms

Shooting with Sprites

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Shoot Bullets Upwards

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Aim and Shoot Bullets

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Have Enemies Periodically Shoot

../_images/sprite_bullets_random.png

Have Enemies Randomly Shoot

../_images/sprite_bullets_enemy_aims.png

Have Enemies Aim at Player

../_images/sprite_explosion_bitmapped.png

Sprite Explosions Bitmapped

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Sprite Explosions Particles

Sound

../_images/sound_demo.png

Sound Demo

../_images/music_control_demo.png

Music Control Demo

Camera Use

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Move with a Scrolling Screen - Centered

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Move with a Scrolling Screen - Margins

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Camera Shake

Platformers

Basic Platformers

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Move with Walls

../_images/sprite_no_coins_on_walls.png

Randomly Place Coins, But Away From Walls And Other Coins

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Move with a Sprite Animation

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Moving Platforms

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Platformer With Enemies

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Simple Platformer

Using Tiled Map Editor to Create Maps

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Work with loading in a Tiled map file

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Work with levels and a tiled map

Procedural Generation

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Creating a Recursive Maze

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Creating a Depth First Maze

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Procedural Caves - Cellular Automata

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Procedural Caves - Binary Space Partitioning

Instruction Screens and Game Over Screens

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Minimal Views Example

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Using Views for Instruction and Game Over Screens

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Using Views for a Pause Screen

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Fade In/Out of Views

Resizable Window and Fullscreen Games

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Resizable Window

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Full Screen Example

Graphical User Interface

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Flat Text Buttons

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GUI Widgets

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OK Message Box

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GUI Scrollable Text

Grid-Based Games

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Array-Backed Grid

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Array-Backed Grid Buffered

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Grid Using Sprites v1

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Grid Using Sprites v2

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Tetris

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Conway’s Game of Life

Advanced

Using PyMunk for Physics

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Pymunk Physics Engine - Stacks of Boxes

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Pymunk Physics Engine - Pegboard

../_images/pymunk_demo_top_down.png

Pymunk Demo - Top Down

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Pymunk Physics Engine - Joint Builder

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Pymunk Platformer

Frame Buffers

../_images/minimap1.png

Mini-Map

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Lighting Demo

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Transform Feedback

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Game of Life with Frame Buffers

Concept Games

../_images/asteroid_smasher.png

Asteroid Smasher

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Asteroids with Shaders

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Slime Invaders

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Community RPG

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2048

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Rogue-Like

Odds and Ends

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Using a Background Image

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On-Screen Timer

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Performance Statistics

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Transform Textures

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Text Localization

Tutorials

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Simple Platformer

../_images/solitaire_11.png

Solitaire Tutorial

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CRT Filter

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Ray-casting Shadows

../_images/pymunk_platformer_tutorial.png

Pymunk Platformer

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Shader Toy Tutorial

Particle System

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Particle System - Fireworks

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Particle Systems

Stress Tests

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Draw Moving Sprites Stress Test

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Collision Stress Test