Welcome to making apps with Pygame!

This tutorial explains how to make interactive applications and games using Pygame. The first part is a general introduction to Pygame without defining classes and objects. The second part introduces classes and objects and teaches an object-oriented programming approach to making apps.

Contents:

• Introduction to Pygame
  • Import the module
  • Show the event loop
  • Quit the event loop properly
  • Define colors
  • Switch the background color
  • Import pygame.locals
  • Use a dictionary to decode keys
  • Change the window caption
  • Explore a simple ball game
• Drawing graphics primitives
  • Draw solid and outlined rectangles
  • Draw solid and outlined ellipses
  • Detect the mouse
  • Draw a rectangle with the mouse
  • Draw multiple shapes
  • Draw a pologyon line with the mouse
• Work with rectangles
  • Virtual attributes
  • Points of interest
  • Horizontal and vertical alignment
  • Move a rectangle with keys
  • Inflate a rectangle
  • Clip a rectangle
  • Move a rectangle with the mouse
  • A self-moving a rectangle
  • Colliding points
  • Colliding rectangles
  • Overlapping rectangles
  • The common code
• Work with images
  • Load an image
  • Move the image with the mouse
  • Rotate and Scale the image
  • Reset the image to the original
  • Flip the image
  • Detect edges with the Laplacian
  • Transform the image with the mouse
• Work with text
  • Initialize a font
  • Render the text
  • Edit text with the keybord
  • Add a blinking cursor
• Making apps with Pygame
  • Create the App class
  • Add the Text class
  • Shortcut keys
  • Fullscreen, resizable and noframe mode
  • Add the Scene class
  • Scenes with background images
  • Automatic node placement
• Create a graphical user interface (GUI)
  • Text attributes
  • Horizontal and vertical alignment
  • Text attributes
  • Editable text
  • Buttons
  • ListBox
  • Detecting double-clicks
• Playing sound
  • Making sounds
• Board Games
  • Selecting cells with the mouse
  • Adding background color
  • Create a checkerboard pattern
• Simple games
  • Pong
• Breakout
  • Making an app
• Tiles
  • Create a Tileset
  • Create a Tilemap
  • Navigation
  • Tiled : a tile-map editor
• About Sphinx
  • Getting started
  • reStructuredText
  • Include from a file
  • Directives
  • Math formulas
  • The app module
  • Glossary

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page