Pygame intro
As with every other kid out there, I spent long hours sitting in front of the computer playing Games like Super Mario, Dangerous Dave and the likes. So when I got to know about Pygame. I was really getting the itch on creating something in the lines of these games.
Of cource, we have better game engines written in other languages like C++, but since I liked python. So I mean what the heck right?
Lets Get Started then shall we
Installation
Ubuntu/Debian
{% highlight bash%} $ sudo apt-get install python-pygame {% endhighlight %}
OS X
If you DON’T have homebrew installed, then
{% highlight bash%} $ ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" {% endhighlight %}
If you have it installed, then
{% highlight bash%} $ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask $ brew cask install xquartz $ brew install python3 $ brew install python $ brew linkapps python3 $ brew linkapps python $ brew install git $ brew install sdl sdl_image sdl_ttf portmidi libogg libvorbis $ brew install sdl_mixer –with-libvorbis $ brew tap homebrew/headonly $ brew install smpeg $ brew install mercurial $ pip3 install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame {% endhighlight %}
See if it works?
Open the terminal
{% highlight bash%} $ python Python 2.7.8 (default, Jun 18 2015, 18:54:19) [GCC 4.9.1] on linux2 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
import pygame
{% endhighlight %}
If there is no Error on that, then you are good to go.
A simple Pygame Boilerplate
I made a dead simple Pygame boilerplate for creating a base for your pygame programs.
Here is the Github link for you.
A sneak peak
What can you do with this?
I created Space Shooter using this boilerplate. Here’s a demo screen for you
