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 need help understanding why objects are not drawing to canvas [closed]
So I’m getting back into coding and using Pygame plus a pygame coding book to learn. I’m about 185 lines in this lesson where I’m making a pong like game. All object to be drawn on the canvas have ...
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What is the easiest way to make pixelated maps with obstacles in pygame?
So I have been trying to create a game with a small map that moves with the player. If the player goes to a wall, the camera also stops. No scrolling. If you want to discover an area, you go to it. ...
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How to make objects move continuously while a key is pressed in pygame?
So I made a new game in pygame and after hours of debugging, I got to a stage where all of my objects get blitted onto the screen. Well, that's great but now I want movement for a particular object. I ...
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How can I move the object constantly downward in pygame?
I want the object to move continuously downward even while I'm pressing the upward key in keyboard. Eventually causing the object to drop completely after some moment.
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Pygame RESIZABLE display flag not working as expected on display re-initialization
I'm working on a simple script to be used as a personal code skeleton for pygame projects (making this primarily for practice with Python, PyGame, and game design) but I'm running into an issue with ...
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Pygame : having trouble with implementing movement with vectors
I've been struggling a lot to learn how to use vectors in programming. Now I've successfully made my own vector class but I still can't use vectors for movement.
This is my class :
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Create list of objects with a for loop pygame/python
Hi everyone I am trying to make a Mahjong Solitaire game using pygame.
I want to create a list of objects (the tiles of the game) using a for loop, but I can't manage to set a different type (the ...
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Problem trying to detect input focus pygame
I am currently creating my version of the classic "Snake" game from scratch. I have added code that creates a dialogue box using the Tkinter module, allowing the player to choose whether or ...
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Internal representation of checkers board
I am creating a game of checkers using the but am struggling to find a good internal representation for the game. My initial thoughts were to store the game board in a 2d list, with 0=empty, 1=always ...
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How do I port a game made with Scratch, Pygame, or JavaScript to the Switch?
I've been making my own games in many different languages (mainly Scratch, Python 3 with Pygame, and JavaScript), but, so far, none of them have been ported to the Nintendo Switch. How can I do this?
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Layer sprites according to their vertical position
I need advanced blitting options in my game. It's a 2D game that has trees' sprites along with the player's sprite.
I want that every tree sprite to be displayed either in front of or behind the ...
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Implementing growth in Snake?
I'm new at this, so I thought I'd start simple. Snake. I started with pygame, just looking some things up, and I've now got movement, random fruit generation, and a score counter.
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Pygame : problem with calculating an angle between two points
I've been struggling to calculate the angle alpha between an object and a certain point M so that I can move that object to M.
To calculate alpha, I'm using ...
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Unable to restart level in Python Pygame
So, I am making Flappy Bird and when the player dies I have the spacebar assigned to reset the game.
However, it's not working and I truly have no idea why (after like 3 hours of going through ...
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How to draw player from the bottom up [pygame]
so I have this basic game I made with pygame, in the game I have this player sprite:
which is 16x28, problem is: all other sprites in the game are 16x16, so I want the player's hitbox to be 16x16 as ...
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Pygame having trouble with surface.blits method
I got used to blit every image into the screen on a seperate line in Pygame but now I want to start using the pygame.Surface.blits() method.
According to the ...
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Pygame logic to make a player stop at obstacles without overlapping them
what's the best logic to force the player to change its direction when he's just next to an obstacle (building, rock, tree..) ?
I know this is related to collision detection but maybe my logic isn't ...
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Pygame 2D : rotation around center not working properly
here is the code I use to rotate an image around its center:
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Recycling bullets versus spawning them on demand
Until now, I know 2 bullets' algorithms/configurations : (I mean 2 ways of logically creating a bullet class)
Make a bullet class and create only one instance from it that represents the bullet.
The ...
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Can't check collision between a mask and a rect in pygame
I'm new to using masks in Pygame and I'm having trouble with them.
I have already learned how to check collisions between two masks but I'm wondering about an effective way to check collisions between ...
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What is surface locking and unlocking in Pygame?
I've read a little about surface locking and unlocking in pygame in Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame. However, I still don't understand it.
I've read that it can improve the game ...
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Ensure that random enemies don't spawn just near the player
I need to find a method using which I can ensure that random enemies and objects don't spawn just near the player. In fact, if they do, the player will be more likely to collide with them and lose.
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How to make a number show how much the player will lose
Bit new to python. I'm making a game where you click on a strawberry, then it reappears in a new location, and so on and so forth. But you see, every time the player misclicks, they lose Score equal ...
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Turn-based grid movement - each click of the clock you want to move the player
I am working one the movement for a tactical turn-based pygame.
I'm stumped as to how to get a selected object to move one tile at a time up to it's max movement to the mouse's pos.
Right now this is ...
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How do you rotate a sprite in pygame?
I am making a game in Pygame and I want it so every time the sprite jumps it rotates mid-air and lands on its side. A lot like Geometry Dash jumping if you have ever played that. I have some code but ...
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Pygame unaccurate key press event handling
I have a problem with my game_over() function in Pygame.
When the player loses, the game_over() function gets executed but since ...
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pygame jump animation
So, I am trying to learn a little bit of Pygame and I really can’t get my little rectangle to jump. Using this code everything seems right to me. First the player should go up, then once ...
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Pygame some methods aren't working properly (collidepoint and get_rect)
I'm making a game menu in Pygame, consider the following block of code:
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Top-Down Tank Physics with Pygame
I am trying to make a top-down tank shooter game in Python and pygame, but I can't get the tank movement right. My objective is to make it move forward in the direction it is pointing in which would ...
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What is get_bounding_rect() method in Pygame?
I got used to get_rect() when detecting collisions in Pygame but I've just discovered that another method called ...
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Pytmx loads no tiles or textures, it seems
So, I've been trying to load a tmx file through pytmx But when it loads the file, it only loads a black image with the same resolution as the tmx file.
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How to remove a sprite from a group?
I am trying to make a chess game with Pygame, but am unable to remove the chess piece when it is captured. Stack Overflow already has a question on this here. But this code doesn't seem to work. When ...
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Pygame tile_size scalling to fullscreen/resizable window
I'm a newbie and I ran out of videos to watch on how to scale your tiles/sprites to fullscreen/resizable window on Python using Pygame.
When I try to resize the window it looks like this:
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"contains support" for Dreamcast/Atari/etc, but "not officially supported"?
I found this on the About page on the official Pygame website:
Truly portable. Supports Linux (pygame comes with most main stream linux distributions), Windows (95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 64-bit ...
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How to stop player from slingshotting across my game window
In my pygame dungeon rpg when my player collides with a wall at the top or the bottom of its rect and I move the player in either x-direction, the player gets slingshotted off the screen. Using print ...
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How can i make a sprite appear middle of your cursor? Pygame
I made a sprite (hitmarker) to appear middle of your mouse when you click on a sprite (egg), but the hitmarker sprite appears at the right bottom of your mouse like this:
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why doesn't spritecollide method work?
In my code, I wanted to use the spritecollides method but I got the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/lanik2009/Documents/pygame testing.py", line 76, ...
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VS Code is no more suggesting Pygame methods for me
I've been using Pygame a lot. And I'm cuurently coding in VS Code. Last week, I have installed JAVA and started learning it's basics. However, from the moment I installed the JDK, VS Code have changed ...
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How to display the counter in pygame.time.set_timer?
in pygame, we use pygame.time.set_timer() to repeatedly create an event. This function takes 2 arguments : the event type and the delay time after which the event ...
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Full screen to windowed screen workaround causing segmentation fault in pygame
I'm having an issue that causes the window bar to appear above the screen when jumping between full-screen and windowed mode. Did some googling on the issue and it turns out it's actually a pygame bug,...
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Pygame bullet firerate not working sometimes
i have made this bullet class but i have a problem with the firerate. Sometimes i'm not able to shoot even when the little delay (700ms) between the two shots has ended. I guess it's due to the ...
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Image color being changed when pygame blitting to screen
I'm working on my first game, and I decided to add some trees that twinkle to the game. For some reason when the image is blitted to the screen using pygames blit ...
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How to make a z-depth buffer with pygame?
I am making a 3d renderer with python and so far am sorting the triangles which I want to replace with a z-depth buffer. The thing is, I don't know how to make a z-depth buffer in pygame. I still want ...
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How would you have a range of movement within a class in pygame?
I have blitted 4 zombies to the screen in pygame. First, the zombies will wander in a specific region (let us say a 10 x 10 area). And when the player enters any one of the zombie's areas, the zombie ...
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How do I click on specific text in an array of text?
I am trying to click on a specific word in an array but I can't think of how.
This is what I have:
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Pygame Platform & Player collisions
I am trying to create a platform game where a player jumps between platforms horizontally (using a projectile curve). Currently, I have a class that blits platforms and a background, as well as the ...
