Teach Your Kids to Code

Chapter 9. User Interaction: Get into the Game

In Chapter 8, we used some of the Pygame library’s features to draw shapes and images on the screen. We were also able to create animation by drawing shapes in different locations over time. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to interact with our animated objects like we might in a game; we expect to be able to click, drag, move, hit, or pop objects on the screen to affect or control the elements of a game while it runs.

Interactive programs give us this sense of control in an app or game, because we can move or interact with a character or other object in the program. That’s exactly what you’ll learn to do in this chapter: we’ll use Pygame’s ability to handle user interaction from the mouse ...