How-To Example Code#

Starting Templates#

../_images/starting_template.png — Starting Template Using Window Class#

../_images/template_platformer.png — Platformer Template#

Drawing#

Drawing Primitives#

../_images/happy_face1.png — Happy Face#

../_images/drawing_primitives1.png — Drawing Primitives#

../_images/drawing_with_functions.png — Drawing with Functions#

../_images/drawing_text1.png — Drawing Text#

../_images/drawing_text_objects1.png — Drawing with Text Objects#

Drawing with Loops#

../_images/drawing_with_loops1.png — Drawing with Loops#

../_images/nested_loops_box.png — Draw a Box with Nested Loops#

../_images/nested_loops_bottom_left_triangle.png — Bottom Left Triangle#

Animating Drawing Primitives#

../_images/bouncing_rectangle1.png — Bouncing Rectangle#

../_images/shapes.png — Bouncing Shapes#

../_images/radar_sweep.png — Radar Sweep#

../_images/snow.png — Falling Snow#

Faster Drawing with ShapeElementLists#

../_images/shape_list_demo.png — ShapeElementList Explanation#

../_images/lines_buffered.png — Using a Vertex Buffer Object With Lines#

../_images/shape_list_demo_skylines.png — Shape List - Skylines#

../_images/gradients1.png — Gradients Example#

Sprites#

Sprite Non-Player Movement#

../_images/sprite_collect_coins_move_down.png — Collect Coins Moving Down#

../_images/sprite_collect_coins_move_bouncing.png — Collect Coins that are Bouncing#

../_images/sprite_bouncing_coins.png — Sprite Bouncing Coins#

../_images/sprite_collect_coins_move_circle.png — Collect Coins that are Moving in a Circle#

../_images/sprite_collect_rotating.png — Animated Sprites#

../_images/sprite_rotate_around_point.png — Sprite Rotation Around a Point#

Sprite Pathing#

../_images/follow_path1.png — Sprites That Follow a Path#

../_images/sprite_follow_simple.png — Sprites That Follow The Player#

../_images/sprite_follow_simple_2.png — Sprites That Follow The Player 2#

../_images/line_of_sight.png — Line of Sight#

../_images/astar_pathfinding1.png — A-Star Path Finding#

Sprite Properties#

../_images/sprite_health.png — Hit Points and Health Bars#

../_images/sprite_properties.png — Sprite Properties#

../_images/sprite_change_coins.png — Change coins#

Games with Levels#

../_images/sprite_collect_coins_diff_levels.gif — Different Levels of Clearing Coins#

../_images/sprite_rooms.png — Moving Between Different Rooms#

Shooting with Sprites#

../_images/sprite_bullets.png — Shoot Bullets Upwards#

../_images/sprite_bullets_aimed.png — Aim and Shoot Bullets#

../_images/sprite_bullets_periodic.png — 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#

../_images/sprite_explosion_particles.png — Sprite Explosions Particles#

Sound#

../_images/sound_demo.png — Sound Demo#

../_images/sound_speed_demo.png — Sound Demo#

../_images/music_control_demo.png — Music Control Demo#

Camera Use#

../_images/sprite_move_scrolling.png — Move with a Scrolling Screen - Centered#

../_images/sprite_move_scrolling_box.png — Move with a Scrolling Screen - Margins#

../_images/sprite_move_scrolling.png — Camera Shake#

../_images/camera_platform1.png — Camera Use in a Platformer#

Platformers#

Basic Platformers#

../_images/sprite_move_walls.png — Move with Walls#

../_images/sprite_no_coins_on_walls.png — Randomly Place Coins, But Away From Walls And Other Coins#

../_images/sprite_move_animation.gif — Move with a Sprite Animation#

../_images/sprite_moving_platforms.png — Moving Platforms#

../_images/sprite_enemies_in_platformer.png — Platformer With Enemies#

../_images/11_animate_character.png — Simple Platformer#

Using Tiled Map Editor to Create Maps#

../_images/sprite_tiled_map.png — Work with loading in a Tiled map file#

../_images/sprite_tiled_map_with_levels.png — Work with levels and a tiled map#

Procedural Generation#

../_images/maze_recursive.png — Creating a Recursive Maze#

../_images/maze_depth_first.png — Creating a Depth First Maze#

../_images/procedural_caves_cellular.png — Procedural Caves - Cellular Automata#

../_images/procedural_caves_bsp.png — Procedural Caves - Binary Space Partitioning#

View Management#

Instruction Screens and Game Over Screens#

../_images/view_screens_minimal.png — Minimal Views Example#

../_images/view_instructions_and_game_over.png — Using Views for Instruction and Game Over Screens#

../_images/view_pause_screen.png — Using Views for a Pause Screen#

../_images/view_screens_minimal.png — Fade In/Out of Views#

Resizable Window and Fullscreen Games#

../_images/resizable_window.png — Resizable Window#

../_images/full_screen_example1.png — Full Screen Example#

Dividing a View Into Sections#

../_images/sections_demo_1.png — Sections Demo 1#

../_images/sections_demo_2.png — Sections Demo 2#

../_images/sections_demo_3.png — Sections Demo 3#

Graphical User Interface#

../_images/gui_flat_button1.png — Flat Text Buttons#

../_images/gui_flat_button_styled.png — Flat Text Button Styled#

../_images/gui_widgets1.png — GUI Widgets#

../_images/gui_ok_messagebox1.png — OK Message Box#

../_images/gui_scrollable_text1.png — GUI Scrollable Text#

../_images/gui_slider.png — GUI Slider#

Grid-Based Games#

../_images/array_backed_grid1.png — Array-Backed Grid#

../_images/array_backed_grid1.png — Array-Backed Grid Buffered#

../_images/array_backed_grid1.png — Grid Using Sprites v1#

../_images/array_backed_grid1.png — Grid Using Sprites v2#

../_images/tetris.png — Tetris#

../_images/conway_alpha.png — Conway’s Game of Life#

Advanced#

Using PyMunk for Physics#

../_images/pymunk_box_stacks.png — Pymunk Physics Engine - Stacks of Boxes#

../_images/pymunk_pegboard.png — Pymunk Physics Engine - Pegboard#

../_images/pymunk_demo_top_down.png — Pymunk Demo - Top Down#

../_images/pymunk_joint_builder.png — Pymunk Physics Engine - Joint Builder#

../_images/pymunk_platformer.png — Pymunk Platformer#

Frame Buffers#

../_images/minimap1.png — Mini-Map#

../_images/light_demo1.png — Lighting Demo#

../_images/transform_feedback1.png — Transform Feedback#

../_images/game_of_life_fbo1.png — Game of Life with Frame Buffers#

../_images/perspective.png — Perspective#

Concept Games#

../_images/asteroid_smasher.png — Asteroid Smasher#

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pythonarcade/asteroids/main/screenshot.png — Asteroids with Shaders#

../_images/slime_invaders.png — Slime Invaders#

../_images/community-rpg.png — Community RPG#

../_images/2048.png — 2048#

../_images/rogue_like.png — Rogue-Like#

Odds and Ends#

../_images/sprite_collect_coins_background.png — Using a Background Image#

../_images/parallax.png — Parallax#

../_images/timer.png — On-Screen Timer#

../_images/performance_statistics1.png — Performance Statistics#

../_images/text_loc_example_translated.png — Text Localization#

Tutorials#

../_images/11_animate_character.png — Simple Platformer#

../_images/solitaire_11.png — Solitaire Tutorial#

../_images/crt_filter.png — CRT Filter#

../_images/raycasting_tutorial.png — Ray-casting Shadows#

../_images/pymunk_platformer_tutorial.png — Pymunk Platformer#

../_images/shader_toy_tutorial.png — Shader Toy Tutorial - Glow#

Particle System#

../_images/particle_fireworks.png — Particle System - Fireworks#

../_images/particle_systems.png — Particle Systems#

Stress Tests#

../_images/stress_test_draw_moving.png — Draw Moving Sprites Stress Test#

../_images/stress_test_collision.png — Collision Stress Test#