Chapter 3. Building Games with PyGame
In the previous chapter, we learned how to get started with Minecraft on Raspberry Pi and how to play it and use Python to manipulate things. Continuing with the same theme, we will now take a look at a gaming library in Python called PyGame and also learn how to create simple games with it. In this chapter, we will go through the following topics:
- Introducing PyGame
- Drawing a fractal tree
- Building a simple snake game
Introducing PyGame
PyGame is a set of Python modules designed for the writing of video games. It is built on top of the existing Simple DirectMedia (SDL) library, and it works with multiple backends, such as OpenGL, DirectX, X11, and so on. It was built with the intention of making game programming ...
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