Questions tagged [python]
Python is a dynamically and strongly typed programming language that encourages readability.
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How do i create an event trigger system (discord bot)
So i am making a card game, i having issues implementing "effects" and effects that are continuous. How can i get effects to activate at the right times, before and after an attack does ...
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Minimax algorithm seems stuck in infinite loop, please help!
2 players works fine but I can't debug the minimax algorithm, it just keeps going..
sorry that the code is messy
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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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Why isn't my player in its pygame rect?
I am making a game in pygame and my player is supposed to be in its rect but it's not. Here is my code, What is wrong and how do I fix it?
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3D to 2D transformations with numpy
I am trying to create my own game in the python terminal, but I just can't find something I can use in python. I found something on https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/59091-projection-matrix-amp-3d-...
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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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Is there a way to know what key was pressed in Python?
I am trying to make it so the key I press assigns itself to a variable. Like so I would click s and the variable would equal "s". How would I do this?
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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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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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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:
When I'm in ...
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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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Python Opengl Procedural Terrain Rendering
I am rendering procedural terrain in Python using OpenGL. Once generated, data for each terrain tile is stored in lists. However currently I am only getting around 25fps despite rendering only around ...
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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:
however, I wanna make it ...
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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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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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Would creating a player scriptable game using Unreal Engine or Unity violate their license agreement?
I want to create a game in Unity or UE4 which allows the user to write scripts in Python and run them mainly to control the AI. I will have to find a way to enable runtime script execution first. ...
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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 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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Efficient sprite animation display methods?
I'm making a game sprite, with animations for transitioning to different states, such as idle, sleeping, etc. I'm wondering what the most efficient way to play the animations is. As of now, I have a ...
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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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Fail to install ML-Agents (python packages)
I have been trying for hours to install pytorch and mlagents with cmd, however I am getting pretty much the same error for each package I'm trying to install -
ERROR: Could not find a version that ...
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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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Networking to make a single player RPG into multiplayer
I’ve written a few games in Xcode before and would like to turn one into the simplest possible 2D top-down RPG multiplayer game. Essentially just needing movements around a big tiled map (I love ...
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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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Find format of data from Steam API using Python
I have some user data downloaded using the Steam API (I am following the approach described here) and I need to find the format for each entry of the CSV file I generated (available here).
Using ...
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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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Domain distortion on a spherical texture (planetary surface)
I am experimenting with procedural techniques to generate planetary terrain. I have close to zero knowledge so I started with something simple, using perlin noise and domain distortion.
My goal is to ...
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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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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)
error:
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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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python game hold down keybind?
I am very new to python I started to make a pong game, but can't get it to let me hold down the buttons for the paddel to move, im using the turtle not pygame
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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 ...
