3DBuzz - Python Creating a Simple Game

6 Lessons 2+ Hrs MP4

This is a short course of building Pong in Python.

Python Simple Game

00:26:23 Python - Creating a Simple Game, intro

Python miniseries covering creation of a pong-style game. In this video we get Python and Pygame

installed and write a test script to verify that Pygame is working.

00:18:50 Python - Creating a Simple Game, pt1

We begin work on the pong game. The script is filled out with game settings, some functions are

"skeletoned" into place, and the game loop is created.

00:25:59 Python - Creating a Simple Game, pt2

This video covers the creation of the Vector2 and Actor classes. The Vector2 class contains

functionality that allows it to act as a numeric type.

00:20:08 Python - Creating a Simple Game, pt3

This video focuses on the creation of a Ball class. This class contains functionality allowing the

ball to bounce and also handles "launching" the ball.

00:24:31 Python - Creating a Simple Game, pt4

This video adds the Player class to the game. The collision detection between ball and paddles is

also covered in this video.

00:14:37 Python - Creating a Simple Game, pt5

Font rendering discussed and the surfaces are set up to handle screen rendering. Some scope issues

addressed when re-rendering the text surface from within a class.