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Introduction to

Game Programming
Vuong Ba Thinh
Department of CS –CSE Faculty - HCMUT

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Outline
• Course Introduction
• Evolution of Video Game Programming
• Game Loop
• Python - Pygame

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Course Introduction
• Assessment:
• 80%: Assignments (6-7)
• One 3D
• 20%: Final Exam (multiple choices + writing test - 75 minutes)
• Reference:
• [1] Sanjay Madhav, Game Programming Algorithms and Techniques -
A Platform Agnostic Approach, 2014.
• [2] AI Sweigart, Making Games with Python & Pygame, 2012.
• [3] Mat Buckland, Programming Game AI By Example, 2004.
• [4] Paul V Craven, Program Arcade Games With Python and Pygame,
2014.

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Evolution of Video Game
Programming
• Atari Era (1977–1985)
• NES and SNES Era (1985–1995)
• Playstation / Playstation 2 Era (1995–2005)
• Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii Era (2005–2013)
• The Future

• AAA game???

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Game Loop

while game is running


process inputs
update game world
generate outputs
loop

Examples: 2048, Caro, Chicken Invader

Exercise: Read “Time and Games” – chapter 1 [1]


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Game Objects
• What is Game Object?
• Types of Game Objects
• Draw-only
• Update-only
• ?

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Python Tutorial
• print
• Data Type
• If statement
• Loop statement
• For loop
• While loop
• Function
• List
• Class

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Pygame Tutorial
Hello World
1. import pygame, sys
2. from pygame.locals import *
3.
4. pygame.init()
5. DISPLAYSURF = pygame.display.set_mode((400, 300))
6. pygame.display.set_caption('Hello World!')
7. while True: # main game loop
8. for event in pygame.event.get():
9. if event.type == QUIT:
10. pygame.quit()
11. sys.exit()
12. pygame.display.update() 8
Computer Coordinate Systems

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Color (RGB)
# Define some colors
BLACK = ( 0, 0, 0)
WHITE = ( 255, 255, 255)
GREEN = ( 0, 255, 0)
RED = ( 255, 0, 0)

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Drawing Introduction
pygame.draw.rect — draw a rectangle shape

pygame.draw.polygon — draw a shape with any number of sides

pygame.draw.circle — draw a circle around a point

pygame.draw.ellipse — draw a round shape inside a rectangle

pygame.draw.arc — draw a partial section of an ellipse


pygame.draw.line — draw a straight line segment

pygame.draw.lines — draw multiple contiguous line segments

pygame.draw.aaline — draw fine antialiased lines


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pygame.draw.aalines — draw a connected sequence of antialiased lines
Animation
• Sprite

• Animation

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Controllers and Graphics
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• Game Controller

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