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Pygame 1-2 Lessons

Here are the steps to create a basic game window in Pygame: 1. Import the pygame module and other necessary modules like sys. 2. Initialize pygame with pygame.init(). 3. Create a display surface by calling pygame.display.set_mode() and pass a tuple with the desired width and height. 4. Set the window caption with pygame.display.set_caption(). 5. Have a main game loop that constantly checks for events, updates the game state, and redraws the display surface. 6. Inside the loop, check for quit events and exit the game properly if one occurs. 7. Redraw the display surface by calling pygame.display.update

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Pygame 1-2 Lessons

Here are the steps to create a basic game window in Pygame: 1. Import the pygame module and other necessary modules like sys. 2. Initialize pygame with pygame.init(). 3. Create a display surface by calling pygame.display.set_mode() and pass a tuple with the desired width and height. 4. Set the window caption with pygame.display.set_caption(). 5. Have a main game loop that constantly checks for events, updates the game state, and redraws the display surface. 6. Inside the loop, check for quit events and exit the game properly if one occurs. 7. Redraw the display surface by calling pygame.display.update

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12.5.1.

1 connect the PyGame library and its modules;  


12.5.1.2 create the game window;  
12.5.1.3 code the game loop of the application. 
Programming video games is just about lighting up pixels to
make pretty pictures appear on the screen in response to
keyboard and mouse input.
Install the Pygame library
Pygame is the library in the Python programming language which makes
it easy to create programs with 2D graphics.

pip install pygame


GUI
Pygame provides functions
for creating programs with a
graphical user interface, or
GUI (pronounced, ―gooey).
Instead of a text-based CLI,
programs with a graphics-
based GUI can show a
window with images and
colors.
Source Code for Hello World with Pygame
You’ve just made
the world’s most
boring video
game!

But creating a window is


the first step to making
graphical games. When
you click on the X
button in the corner of
the window, the program
will end and the window
will disappear.
Line 1 is a simple import statement that imports the
pygame and sys modules so that our program can
use the functions in them.

The sys module provides functions and variables


used to manipulate different parts of the Python
runtime environment.
Line 4 is the pygame.init() function call, which always needs to be called
after importing the pygame module and before calling any other Pygame
function.

It needs to be called first in order for many Pygame


functions to work.
Line 5 is a call to the pygame.display.set_mode() function, which returns the
pygame.Surface object for the window.

Notice that we pass a tuple value of two integers to the function: (400, 300). This tuple
tells the set_mode() function how wide and how high to make the window in pixels.
(400, 300) will make a window with a width of 400 pixels and height of 300 pixels.
Line 6 sets the caption text that will appear at the top of the window by calling the
pygame.display.set_caption() function.

The string value 'Hello World!' is


passed in this function call to make that text appear as the caption:
Game Loops and Game States

A game loop (also called a


Line 7 is a while loop that
main loop) is a loop where
has a condition of simply the
the code does three things:
value True. This means that
1. Handles events.
it never exits due to its
2. Updates the game state.
condition evaluating to
3. Draws the game state to
False.
the screen.
Since the game state is usually updated
in response to events (such as mouse
clicks or keyboard presses) or the
passage of time, the game loop is
constantly checking and re-checking
many times a second for any new events
that have happened.
Line 8 is a for loop that will iterate over the list of Event objects that was returned
by pygame.event.get(). On each iteration through the for loop, a variable named
event will be assigned the value of the next event object in this list. The list of
Event objects returned from pygame.event.get() will be in the order that the events
happened.

If the user clicked the mouse and then pressed a keyboard key, the Event object for
the mouse click would be the first item in the list and the Event object for the
keyboard press would be second.
Line 9 checks if the Event object’s type is equal to the constant QUIT. Remember
that since we used the from pygame.locals import * form of the import statement,
we only have to type QUIT instead of pygame.locals.QUIT.

If the Event object is a quit event, then the pygame.quit() and sys.exit() functions are
called. The pygame.quit() function is sort of the opposite of the
pygame.init()function: it runs code that deactivates the Pygame library. Your
programs should always call
pygame.quit() before they call sys.exit() to terminate the program.
Line 12 calls the pygame.display.update() function, which draws the
Surface object returned by pygame.display.set_mode() to the screen
(remember we stored this object in the DISPLAYSURF variable).

Since the Surface object hasn’t changed (for example, by some


of the drawing functions that are explained later in this chapter), the
same black image is redrawn to the screen each time
pygame.display.update() is called.
Self-study
https://younglinux.info/pygame/pygame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfWpgLFMI7w&ab_channel=freeCodeCam
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Create your first game window
Task as in example.

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