Questions tagged [pygame]
A game development library based on the Python programming language. It wraps SDL for easy use alongside Python.
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I want my shapes to stay at screen
I am working on a paint project and it's almost complete but I want it to behave like the ms paint , in which whenever we draw an object (rectangle ,line) it shows it on the screen while we are moving ...
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Meu código está dando erro e não sei como resolver [duplicate]
for bullet in laser:
index = 0
velx = math.cos(bullet[0])*10
vely = math.cos(bullet[0])*10
bullet[1]+=velx
bullet[2]+= vely
if bullet[1]<-64 or bullet[1]>600 or bullet[2]<64 or bullet[2]>...
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Enemy A/MovementI in Pygame, idle and aggressive bosses
Working on my first project and I'm trying to get enemy movement sorted, the code below is my current implementation. The enemy using the distance between the player position (target.pos.x) and their ...
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How to make my sprite shoot fireballs (bullets) in pygame?
This is my Sprite1.py program which I import to my main.py program. It contains all the classes I use in my main.py. I tried to create bullets based on a program I saw online but it doesn't work for ...
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How do I draw my particles when an enemy is killed?
I have enemies that move left and right.
I was wonder how I could make my particles show up when the enemy is killed?
Here is my particle class
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Rotating Cannon's Mouth Toward Player
I am trying to make my cannon mouth rotate towards player, but the rotation is messed up and up I don't know how to fix it.
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Implementing melee combat in pygame?
I've gone about 2 ways for implementing melee attacks however, bboth have major flaws, hoping someone has a simpler answer.
Method 1:
Creating a "projectile" that's using an image, then ...
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Problem With Enemy Bullets Attacking The Player Pygame
I am trying to make my enemy bullets attack the player but it only attack its x and y how could I make it curve instead of zigzagging VIDEO the bullets only attack the y axis and it wont curve or go ...
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python sockets: receive data only when data is available?
I am writing an update to a game I have written in python, and I am currently adding server support. I can't show you the main code (for the client), as it is hundreds of lines long. However, what I ...
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Best way to go about implementing melee attack in Pygame platformer? [duplicate]
I can't seem to find any tutorials on melee attacks in pygame only projectile attacks.
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EndScreen Not Loading My Best Score And Current Score How To Fix?
I am trying to make my endscreen save last score and current score but it just appears as 0 for both everytime I die event he I picked up the coins image so basically it isnt saving my coins I had and ...
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Pygame End Screen Problem How To Fix?
Video as you can see there I am trying to make my end screen restart my game but whats happening is that its not restarting my game its just loading the same thing when I die >> how could I make it so ...
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Enemies Bullet Shooting At Player Problem How To Fix?
I am trying to make my enemies shoot at my player rect where ever the position the player is and when it collides with the rect it should remove the -1 health ***my problem is that when the enemy ...
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Tiled Map Editor Vs Text File? | Pygame [closed]
I've only recently got into coding and was looking around on how to create a 2D platformer, a lot of tutorials I've seen have used text files to create their maps. However, one I saw in particular ...
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Problem WIth Enemies Bullets PyGame
I am trying to make my enemy shoot my player but for some reason the bullets arent showing nor they are shooting at the player I don't even know why, I even draw the bullets on my window VIDEO
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Pygame Collision | Why do I slide up walls in my tile based game?
My player if in contact with a wall either left/right/top(head) they will be able to just continue in the Y direction if you press jump as if you were flying. This is for all walls and invisible walls ...
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(Pygame) Bouncing projectile gets stuck at window edge, rapidly bouncing back and forth
I've just started developing with Pygame and I figured that as my first project I would try to bounce some Rect objects around. I saw a sample of a bouncing ball here, and when I copied the code and ...
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Pygame Tiled Map Object layer collision
I'm using pygame to make a top down shooter I've placed my tiles and object layers using Tiled Map Editor. My player and mobs collide with their spawn locations (object layer) is anyone able to help? ...
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Pygame Scrolling Bug With Enemys
I have a problem with my enemy where when my player scrolls left the enemy scrolls with the player is there anyway to fix this even Video my full code is below its to long to fit here though
what I ...
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how do you get pygame to register multiple key presses at the same time
every time i try to operate player one and two or try to use the pickup key it stops the players.plz help here is my code-
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Player won't move correctly due to gravity force pushing him into the ground
I am making a tilemap platformer with pygame ad I defined the X and Y movement for the player and also a Y force that represents the gravity force to make it jump correctly. However, when my player ...
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Why doesn't my Pygame game scroll properly?
When I am clicking the arrow keys, in order to scroll my ground and my lucky block, I cant just press the key and it keeps on going scroll. So I need to press the key every second to get a kinda ...
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How do I make my level scroll side-to-side as the player moves?
I am trying to figure out how can I make a side-scrolling view in Pygame.
If I am moving right or left, I want the portion of the level shown on-screen to shift to follow the player character.
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Why does collision only work sometimes when there are multiple objects in the game?
when i was making a pygame in python for the first time
i kinda have a problem where sometimes the player and the object would touch and the game would not close as intended i dint seem to find the ...
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How to add multiple floors to a map in a text-based game?
I decided to learn how to make games during this quarantine. I am reading Mission Python, a book that teaches how to make games using python and pygame. I'm halfway through it, but the game only has ...
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Pygame polygon click detection
Here is my problem : I am creating a game and I have a board made out of polygons (hexagons). I want to be able to click on the different tiles but I don't find a simple method. I understood how to ...
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Is there a way to get relative center of a Rect object in pygame?
Now, suppose I always want to draw a circle at the center of a rect object, now, the problem is:
For example, if I do
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Why is my program “not responding” when I run it?
I'm trying to learn to code with python and while using pygame, I came across this: every time I run the window it says "not responding".
Specifically, it happens when I click to drag the window; the ...
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Improving the efficiency of a grid-based ecosystem simulation
I'm trying to create a grid-based ecosystem simulation game.
The design I came up with is something like a 1000 x 1000 (or larger) grid, with each cell being a representation of an object containing ...
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How can I remove a sprite from the screen using pygame?
I am having trouble with removing sprites on my screen using pygame.
I am killing my sprite with sword.kill which is removing it from an all_sprites group, so it should disappear right?
Here is ...
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How do a make a smooth animation with images of different sizes in pygame?
I have an animation where my player swings his sword, with 5 images in pygame. The normal resting image is 14x22, and the rest are 13x23, 21x23, 18x23, and 18x23. I am having trouble with my character ...
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How to stop snake game stuttering?
I have the following code and it seems to work pretty well except that every once in a while the program stutters and the snake teleports forward a few spaces. I can't tell what this is related to.
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pygame multiple collisions between two objects
Ok, so I have been trying to figure out how to set this up and can't get it working properly. I'm trying to get the functionality similar to the moving logs in the game Frogger if you are familiar ...
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Collisons with rock and player(spaceship)
I'm trying to make when the rock hits the spaceship or player it should decrease the health from the health bar but when I run it, it doesn't work. The rock decreases the health randomly. How can I ...
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Collision detection / physics for simple game
I am currently working on a mini game for class (first time doing something like this) and I don't really know how to start with collision detection at all. The game I'm creating is a top down sumo ...
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Problem with diagonal collision response using PyGame
So I have been having this problem for the last few days and it has me really frustrated. What I am trying to do is resolve collisions with custom hitboxes in PyGame and it looks something like this:
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How to detect collision while the animation is running to move an object to the next coordinate?
I implemented SAT collision detection in Python with the GUI library pygame. It is working well, except when the objects are going too fast. I have velocity and acceleration variables. For each loop ...
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Positioning a Window to Fill the Screen
I'm using Pygame (just started), and I'm struggling to find how I set the position of the window to fill my entire monitor screen.
I can move things around within the screen / surface. I can make the ...
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Find angle to a point
I'm trying to find the angle between a point and the left side of my camera's fov.
In the picture below the camera (Red dot) is looking towards a polygon (Green) with the fov of the camera ...
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Editing this code to put in my own sprites and textures?
I have to make a game for class and have to have scrolling camera, fully textured background, and have the sprite be fluid. I need the rectangle to be turned into a sprite. This code I found on https:/...
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how to move object in a circle around point?
There are two controllable objects orbiting around a centre block. Unfortunately, I don't really know how to stick them so they can only move around the block (left/a sends them clockwise, right/a ...
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Pygame Mask Doesen't Detect Collisions
I'm trying to make my game's collisions with masks. I have 6 masks but only 2 works.
My code is:
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Pygame Updating Display Without Being Told To
The following (abridged) bit of code is inside the main loop. What I expected to happen was the entity's position to update due to velocity, then update again if it's touching a static object before ...
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How should I go about creating a multiplayer pac-man game in python? [closed]
For some context, I am making a Pac-Man game (using pygame) and I need a little guidance on how to structure the multiplayer side (using sockets). I have a few ideas (the first of which I have tried)
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How to reset Camera and Hero position at new level in pygame
I'm working on a 3rd level of my game. When the 3rd level begins the Camera and Hero position is getting same value which was left by the 2nd level at the end point. I'm not able to find a way around ...
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How to make player move into next level in pygame
When my player reaches at the end of the map, I want it to enter to next level. I've created first level and it all works fine. All I want to do is that when player finishes 1st level I want to load ...
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Cube not square and being clipped horrendously, color doesn't apply
I'm trying to create my own object-oriented graphics library and use it to make a ping-pong game. I am following some tutorials online, and one uses old-style code with individual calls to ...
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PyBox2D car moves uncontrollably
I am trying to program TopDown Car using python and Box2D (similar to this tutorial: http://www.iforce2d.net/b2dtut/top-down-car ) The steering is so far limited to thres states of wheel rotation, ...
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How to make player land on platforms more than one in pygame
I'm trying to make multiple platforms (blocks) on screen on which player can jump and land on it. When I just keep only one block, player jumps on it and land easily. But when I create other platform ...
