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 am coding a arcade game for my class [closed]
I am trying to figure out how to do a melee attack event listener button in python for a arcade machine.
I need some help trying to figure it out
Can Someone please help me?
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How to make gravity in pygame?
I'm not sure why my gravity isn't working... Can pleas anyone help??
Here my code:
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How to make my sprite jump in pygame?
I wonder how to make a sprite jump in pygame! Can anybody explain if possible?
Thank you!
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Why don't my keypresses work in Pygame?
I don't know why my attempt to read keypresses in Pygame is not working.
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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 ...
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Having Problems in PyGame with Mouse Cursor and Sprite Collision
I know something is not right but I'm just starting out and hit a wall.
Basically, I just want to MouseClick on a Sprite and make something happen.
The mouse clicking itself works, the sprite ...
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How can I upload a pygame that I made on a website? [duplicate]
I'm a beginner programmer and I want to know how can you upload your pygame on websites like coolmathgames or any game websites, do you upload your code after you get a deal with them? do you save it ...
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player teleporting into other levels
So I basically want to load another map once the player collides with a object, specifically a "Portal" in my game. Which is really making the player move onto other levels. I don't want to ...
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How can I publish a Python game on itch.io as html?
I'm making a game with Python, using Pygame. I want to publish my game on itch.io so that it's playable in the browser.
Is there a way to do this? If so, how?
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Where to store polygons and polygon animation?
I thought about making something with ApeOut graphics long before it came out and its release motivated me to try - I'm having tons of fun but I stumbled upon a pickle.
I can imagine storing polygons ...
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How can I change the background color of the image?
I'm trying to change my background image color, but somehow it doesn't work.
I have provided my code below and hope you will be able to tell me how I should do this, and why my code didn't work.
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diagonal movement to a enemy in pygame
I spent a long time trying to make the diagonal movement in the form of code but I don't know how to write it. the code I have so far is almost complete but it is missing the pixelart that I will add ...
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How to make a sprite face the player sprite (pygame 2d)
Basically I have a sprite and I want its front/face to face the player sprite. All the sprites are rectangles/squares and use .get_rect().
I have a base class for ...
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Dashing mechanic in top down projectile dodging game in pygame
im making a simple third person top down game where you dodge projectiles than fly in from either side of the screen, its a simple high score game where the longer you avoid being hit, the better your ...
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Sprite walk animation blurring when sprite image moves too quickly
I didn't see any other questions like this that had an answer so I thought I'd ask in hopes this helps someone else too. I have a game I'm in the beginning stages of working on, and I've gotten to the ...
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Player not moving camera to the other side of the screen when hitting the screen edge
I'm working on a game where I want the player to appear on the other side of the screen when they get to the edge of the screen, essentially mimicking the background moving. When the player gets to ...
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PYGAME - Sprite movement seize to function when entire X and Y span is reviewed
I've created an sprite class that has a detection radius checking if the player enters the zone. If yes, the sprite moves towards the player. It works perfectly fine when the sprite checks for three ...
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Rendering tiles at a larger size for a detailed look
I'm trying to make my 32-bit tiled map become more "zoomed" in. However, I experience an error that I can't resolve. Firstly, I followed this post on how to render the tiles larger.
This is ...
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How to get object or its index from mouse coordinates? [closed]
Basically, I have a NumPy array of rectangles that store their colour and position.
I want to be able to compare my mouse position and clicked on the rectangle's position and get the index or the ...
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Are you supposed to be looping through all PhysicsObjects at every step in a physics engine?
I am currently making a small 2D game and I am trying to implement some basic 2D physics. I currently have a list of around 100 PhysicsObjects which I loop through every frame in order to update and ...
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Animating from json file in pygame?
I have got a json file and I am trying to load the single sprites from that file
but I gives this error after a few loops and also the animation is not smooth(gets stuck)
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How can I create a boundary so the sprites don't go off screen?
I'm attempting to create a boundary around the window to stop the sprites of my game from escaping but it doesn't seem to be work, when they hit the area where its supposed to stop them it instead ...
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Using multiple pygame_gui managers
I would like to structure my gui into different panels.
so to help keep my code managable i thought it might be a good idea to have a main panel. with its own manager and then a secondary panel with ...
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The gameloop is stucking the window
I tried to display a player image in a 800x600 window using PyGame but when I try it, the window just gets stuck (immovable with mouse drag, minimize,maximize and close button is stuck and not ...
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Failed to execute script {pygame.exe}
So I've made an game which just has a script named "TrainYourBrain.py". I wanted to make an exe of it but I failed.
It just gives the error Failed to execute script TrainYourBrain
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How to load a new map when player reaches a certain point using if tile_object.name == 'door" (pygame)
I have been working on creating a 2d game, and I am now at the point where I want the character to be able to interact with his environment. I have created a few different obstacles such as a house, a ...
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How do I update this code to hit a moving target from a moving shooter?
I am working on a game where one spaceship("Origin") can shoot a dumb projectile("Projectile") at another spaceship("Target").
Since the target is moving we will have to ...
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Using pygame with multiple threads
I have decided to try out pygame. I created a class that is supposed to handle all the GUI and game related stuff.
My idea is that I would have two seperate threads. One to handle the GUI and one to ...
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How can the game graphics be stabilised when after each frame hundreds of calculations are taking place? [duplicate]
I am building a very basic 2D game purely using pygame library in Python 3x. The "game object" is blit(ed) onto the screen using a loop and after each pass, there are calculations taking ...
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Scrolling background in PyGame with Entity Component System
I know this type of question has been asked to death for 'normal' games, however I am struggling with relating a scrolling background to an entity component system (ECS) approach.
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How to fix edge scrolling on a 2d scrolling camera?
Afternoon all,
I just cannot get this to work properly and I'd really appreciate any help. I have a camera that follows the player around a 2d tile based map. However, I want the camera to move only ...
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Pygame - RPG Battle-Style Animation and movement when not controlled by player
Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2cOiFntLY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHl1YFkeR78
I am making a small little RPG based on a text-adventure game that I made. This RPG involves a battle ...
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How to disable pause() in game_loop() once game_over() function is called?
How can I disable pause() in game_loop() once game_over() function is called?
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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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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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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 ...
