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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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.
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How to get object or its index from mouse coordinates?
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 ...
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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 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 can'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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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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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 ...
