tutorials — wiki

The PYGAME Documentation page has a number of tutorials. A Newbie Guide to pygame is very good.

There are lots of examples that come with pygame. See https://github.com/pygame/pygame/tree/master/examples. They should be installed, and are runnable like:

python -m pygame.examples.aliens

Below are unofficial tutorials and guides. Anything with wrong install instructions is not allowed.

General Tutorials¶

• Tutorials by DR0ID
• PyGame object oriented tutorials by przemo_li
• Thepythongamebook tutorial about Pygame

Pygame Tutorials on Specific Topics¶

• piman's sprite tutorial
• Screencasts and tutorials at Scriptedfun, making an arkanoid type game
• A tutorial on making a top-down tile-based game
• PyGame Physics Youtube Tutorials by maaack
• Creating a 2D Minecraft style game
• YouTube series creating a top down racing game with Python 3

Non-English Resources¶

Spanish¶

• Tutoriales para comenzar
• Tutorial básico de Pygame
• Tutorial de Pygame + PGU
• Repositorio Python+Pygame

Brazilian Portuguese¶

• Introdução a Programação de Jogos usando PyGame (Introduction to Game Development using PyGame). This covers the basics and the final target is a good side-scrolling game.

Italian¶

• All Pygame tutorials Questa � una traduzione non ufficiale del tutorial su pygame di Pete Shinners, curata dagli utenti di python-it.

Français (french)¶

• Sur Wikibooks, Traduction compl�te des tutoriels officiels de Pete Shinners.

Greek¶

• Python Game Programming (Greek) - A free Pygame book for Greek audiences. Introduces programming in a fun way. No previous experience required.

Polish¶

• Isometric Game Part 1 - Introduction to pygame
• Isometric game part 2 - Sprites
• Isometric game part 3 - Collisions
• Isometric game part 4 - Pygame, OpenGL and fairies
• Isometric game part 5 - to draw a 2D map
• Isometric game Part 6 - to draw a map of an isometric
• Cz.7 isometric game - mouse in the world of isometries
• PyGame – pierwsze podejście do tworzenia gry 2d