Get Started in Pygame in 10 minutes!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ม.ค. 2023
- In this video I will explain how to get started in Pygame from scratch.
This is aimed at those who have not used Pygame before and will go through the steps of installing Python, installing Pygame as well as looking at a few different editor options.
Then I will explain the basic structure of a game and put together some simple code to demonstrate this.
Take a look at the tutorial on my website for a written version here: www.codingwithruss.com/pygame/...
Editors mentioned in the video are:
IDLE
Sublime Text (This is the one I use most)
VS Code (I have started using this one more recently)
PyCharm
Atom
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If you are getting an error like "no module named pygame" or "pip is not recognised", then there may be an issue with your python install. This short video shows how to fix those errors: th-cam.com/video/0x_MEKr0OJQ/w-d-xo.html
You haven't had your python run to paths
Genuinely, you’re a lifesaver. I was stressing so much about the complexity of Pygame, but this tutorial gave me such a good start. Thanks!
Glad it helped!
I've made FlapPy Bird, but it was from a sample. Now, I'm watching this video to truly learn.
I’m trying to make Tetris and you helped me a lot
I can say as a beginner to pygame and pythoon as a whole. This was a easy tutorial to follow.
I've been studying Data Analytics and been skipping Python so much to learn other things due to the Syllabus, and I really wanted to go back to learn more about the functionality of Python for other things. This tutorial made it fun, with concepts I am familiar with, but just focusing on other cool things we can do with Python. Thank you so much! It lightened my face and made my day.
Im following your platformer tutorials they are great!
I started coding 9 daysa ago and they are easy to follow and awseome!
at school we were learning about print('hello world') and its so cool seeing myself progress with your tutorials as you explain whats happening so im learning not just copying
thanks you so so much your awsome
That's great to hear! Glad you are enjoying the tutorials.
Brilliant! this is what a tutorial should be, neither over nor under-explaining. (and now I have a natty little red box on my screen and i'm going to make it eat things now!)
One of the best explanations of the needed basic elements to start a Pygame project. Thanks a bunch!
Thanks!
I started using Python for my work as a scientist and now I can also use if for my passion of games :D thank you alot for this introduction!
Hello folks! Visit codingwithruss.com/tutorial/getting-started to get the code and a quick reference of what was covered in this video.
Straight to the point and crystal clear, thanks alot !
Thank you so much, I was clicking video after video until I saw yours. Great work!
Dude, this was freaking fun. Thanks for the tutorial. It may look like it is from the Atari years, but the feeling of creating this is great!. Cheers!
Thanks! Glad to hear you liked it
I wanted to try pygame and this video helped me with understanding pygame. Thanks!
Great tutorial, thank you very much! I played the final result for about 15 minutes!
Simple. Clear. Effective
thanks, I needed to draw rectangles for a chart so I thought to use pygame and this is the only tutorial that is not an hour long, lifesaver
Glad it helped :)
Great tutorial. Perfect for peoples who never used pygame before what to know how to get started.
Thanks!
Hi, Russ!
Thanks for this. FYI, in Thonny, you have to capitalise the True and False in the code for it to work.
I think you're the best teacher I've found. Thanks for this video.
Thank you! Glad you liked it
This was the best 101 I've found so far. You've got yourself a new subscriber.
Thanks!
personally I'd not use elif for the movement so you can move diagonally
How do you do it then?
@@dminikkkyou could just do separate if statements for each directions
Thanks this was so helpful
@@pukeblo4382but that means moving diagonally is quicker than sideways
@@dminikkkif up elif down
if left elif right
2 if statements and 2 else ifs
THANK YOU SO MUCH now i can start my dream job because of you😄
I found that it very helpful to use your tutorial. Thank you so much!
tsym for this tutorial king :> the simplicity in the explanation helped a ton, finally gonna be able to make games with screens rather than pure text inputs T>T
Glad you liked it
Thank You so Much! This Helped Me Improve My Python Skills a Lot!
Great to hear!
Glad to see you back!
Thanks, it's been a while! You even changed your name :)
@@CodingWithRuss it sure has been a while and yeah i changed my name :))
Thank you so much for such a great tutorial.
Great explanation! Although I'm native german speaking I'd understood very good. Thanks for your effort! 👍😊
very nice
thank you for sharing your knowledge
(also have to say, as someone who's spent far too long being tortured by c++ build systems, python is a nice change; yeah, yeah, performance will be an issue many times but for what i'm trying to do python's just fine - thanks again)
This was extremely easy to follow! thank you for this
Glad it was helpful!
brooo you're so goodddddddddd i understand all and now i can start project. thank you so much
Glad it helped :)
Excellent. Thank you
soothing/relaxing voice, new sub..
Hi, russ. I am happy to say that I finally made my first game completely on my own using the knowledge I got from all of your wonderful tutorials. I am giving you recommendations about tutorials that I would like to watch: again a tower defense game where you place towers on the map that shoot at the coming enemies, an upgrade system for them, wave calculating system for the enemies so that the waves are infinite and get harder with each wave. One other tutorial that I would love to watch and I can't find anywhere is about making popping score that appears, floats up and disappears shortly or just disappears after a while or even fades away. Maybe even randomize the size of the numbers, the rotation, the speed and so on . I know that you made a similar thing for your rpg game tutorial, but maybe you can expand on it. Also a game I'm really interested in making is a tower defense, but one where you have to buy troops that go and attack the enemy castle and defend from the enemy troops, im sure that you know of such games. I know how hard it is to make such tutorials and I appreciate your hard work, so I understand if you can't make them. Thats all, thank you for being such an awesome creator, keep it up 👍
Thanks a lot! Great to hear you've been working on your own projects, it's satisfying to create something yourself. I've not been able to focus on coding/youtube so much for a few months now but I keep trying to get back to it. I do actually have the tower defence game on my list of ideas so it's there in my plans to do someday :)
I think a tower defense is a good milestone for novice programmers, that is where I am almost at myself.
@@tristandombroski9677 Indeed i am also looking forward to the tower defense tutorial
10/10 tutorials
Bro actually i am new in programming so i dont know much about it but when i use commands like
Import , init etc
It doesnt show the colour like purplish as it shows urs
Plz help me out of this
Hmm... I have PyGame installed, but when I try to run the code it says, "No module named 'pygame'".
try another code editor like notepad++
This is awesome video🎉
Thanks :)
I created the window and I can move it around, but the window doesn't close when hitting X.
I followed the code exact up to that point. Any reason why that would happen?
I am attempting to code the rectangle movement, but I can only press one directional button each time I run it, and then it goes to the edge of the screen and doesn't move if I try to press another one.
This was an amazing tutorial! One question, when I run the code it’s very inconsistent- sometimes it moves quickly and other times it moves very slowly. I’m running it on a rather old laptop so I wonder if that’s the issue. Anything I can do to fix it?
Is there a way to save the code and then run it from the terminal?
Hey, I finished the video and downloaded the custom firmware as well. I do have one question, when I open up w flipper do I still install new updates or will that mess up the custom firmware?
Hey there!, im really interested in coding and stuff and i took python in my school(the school really was careless on teaching computer scienceas the teacher was busy most of the time). I myself learnt from a book which was assigned about many things and even learnt about sql and related things. And now i was wondering if theres a possibility to make a small arcade like game and publishing it on an online store to earn something so can u tell is there any possiblity and how?. Soon my exams will over and ill have much more time to spend on my computer so doing a project that gives a atleast a small return would be encouraging and i can say that my hobby is to code.
And can u suggest what other future projects should i think to work on?
Im thinking to learn about tinkter next after the exams and as for later i was thinking to switch to c# next
It's quite helpful thanks bro
Cheers 🙂
I'm getting the following error, any suggestions?
C:\Windows\System32>pip install pygame
'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
the explanation is very clear. but i still had a problem with displaying the red cube correctly. it only showed once i closed the window. i moved the pygame.display.update() to a different place , under the line pygame.draw.rect() and now it seems to work. i don't know why that happened..
You're the best!
Thank you thank you thank you so so much! Now I can watch other tutorials or your own tutorials and not get confused. Thank you again ❤
Glad it helped 🙂
So when i write the commands like import they dosent change colors i thinked it was fine but i cant run the commonds without them chainging colors i dont know what did i do wrong (i used sublimane text for its get easyier to learn)Also like its dosent auto correct im sure this is the right one and im sure ı have installed pygame.
Pls help me.
Uhm. I need help my letter when I click import it doesn’t change colors like yours for example when I put import pygame it’s white not purple like yours and I put all those codes but nothing is running what am I doing wrong?
mine keeps on not responding after i added the movement components. any clues what might be going on?
Hello, I get the window to open and vscode shows no issue, but the window keeps loading and if I click it it turns white and stops responding until it crashes, any help?
import pygame
pygame.init()
SCREEN_WIDTH = 800
SCREEN_HEIGHT = 600
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT))
gives me: AttributeError: partially initialized module 'pygame' has no attribute 'init' (most likely due to a circular import)
i have windows 11, python and pygame both installed, plz help
this code doesn't work with python3 it gives me an indentation error on line 13 and i cant fix it i dont know what is going on here but if anyone can help id appreciate it greatly
bro please help me in my windows laptop is saying this 'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
im just confused on how to come up with this on my own. like all the (()) and : , . how do i even know what to type? i can follow your steps and basically cope and paste but how do i understand what to write?
The elif statement prevents it from going diagonal I suggest just doing an if statement
Hey it crashes after i add the rectangle and the collor could you help me?
Thanks - great video! Is there a follow up, part two etc?
After this video it makes sense to jump into some small projects, so I've got tutorials for tic tac toe, snake etc that take what is in this video and build on it into a game.
I am having issues running the software. It's trying to reach images from my C: Drive, but I am using my E: drive for coding.
Hello Russ! Can you pls make a tutorial on how to code chess offline 1v1 with pygame and chess library
I have an issue when I run the program it is fine until I enter the code for movement control then it freezes and crashes please can anyone help?
I got stuck on the very beginning and got this error:
RuntimeWarning: import threads: No module named 'pygame.threads'
(ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pygame.threads')
import pygame
I also got an error saying
[Errrno 2] No such file or directory: ‘ ‘[finished in 110ms]
if ur on vs code then on the powershell terminal type in "pip install pygame"
THANK YOU!
👍
I only watched one of your video and it got me interested already to try on making a game.
Nice! glad to hear it
Thanks! The Coding was easy, but when i press Ctrl+B my pygame window opens up and shows a black screen and then it shows not responding and gets closed. I am using sublime text editor. please help me with this.
It's likely that your event handler isn't working correctly. Follow along with the video and you should get it to work
Russ , you are my favorite game developer on TH-cam ! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us =) !
such a good tutorial
Thanks!
my sprite[the rectangle] is so fast that it disappears how should i make it slow down
Damn seems like it's better than Tkinter. Thanks man!
I copied your code exactly, but all I get is a black screen. I have tried many things to fix the problem, even changing the screen to gray instead of black, but still it shows a black screen. No error warnings. Any thoughts?
I had this same issue and also an issue where as soon as i would load the window it would tell me not responding. I had to go through the code with a fine toothed comb and realized somehow i left all the [pygame.k_*] lower cased k instead of capitals and for some reason didnt get an error code it would just crash the window but once i made the k capital it ran like a charm. you may have some issue like that in the code
How can I create a circle instead of a rectangle that I can move?
Russ, you should make tutorials about the Ursina 3D engine. You can make full 3d games with very little lines of code. Keep up the great work though!
is pycharm usable without paying for the premium stuff? I see that after downloading it gives you 30 days free, but is it still usable after that time or is it a waste of time to download it if i'm not intending to pay a subscription after?
The community version of pycharm is free as far as I know...unless that's changed very recently.
This is why I use Visual Studio Code to write python apps. No subscription required!
How do j program it where it moves to touch screen
Can anyone explain the difference between Import pygame and using pygame.init() method. What exactly is being initialized?
import pygame just makes the module available to the python interpreter, pygame.init() actually initializes the module
does anyone know why mine isnt event its envent and event doesnt exist
Why does my sublime not have any colored text and when you get to the rect leaving a trail the pygame program is closing
i have same issue
Can the app made also work on mobile phones?
when i try to install py game it says 'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file. Do you know how to fix that. Thanks:)
I've got a video covering just that :) th-cam.com/video/0x_MEKr0OJQ/w-d-xo.html
Great! 💚
my terminal says " pygame.init()
^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: partially initialized module 'pygame' has no attribute 'init' (most likely due to a circular import)" why😢
AWESOME
Hello, im not to sure when you say to run the code i don't where to click to run the code?
also, when i type it doesn't show the colours or even the "other alternative words". what im i doing wrong? thank you
in the bottom right of sublime it should say "plain text" click that and then a menu should pop up, look for "python" and click that. that should make them change colour.
to run the code go to tools in the top left then hit build system then hit python, to run it hit ctrl + b
Also, will you make videos on Tile Map Editor for Python?
I have my own tile map editor that I made for my shooting game and there is a full tutorial for that here: th-cam.com/video/xYhniILN6Ls/w-d-xo.html.
I also plan to do a tutorial on the 3rd party map editor "Tiled" at some point
Pygame shows the rectangle, but I just get "pygame not responding" from windows
So I installed sublime text, and I wrote the code that was in the video, but all the text is just white, and not multicolored like in the video. How can I fix that?
in the bottom right of sublime it should say "plain text" click that and then a menu should pop up, look for "python" and click that. that should make them change colour.
I am on a tablet using pydroid 3 and I go as far as creating a red rectangle why won't it appear
Now do i open the game Window like you do for checking if it's working?
Depends on your editor but in sublime text I use CTRL+B
can you list the editors, I know pycharm, notepad plus plus, idle, but what was that first one or the one that you use? Thanks. I'm a total blind person as well, it would be nice if you could show how to make a talking menu system step by step. Thanks again.
I think its called subline text the idle that he was using
Hi Matthew, good suggestion, I'll update the description to include this. The editor that I use is Sublime Text
Weird question, I seem to have followed everything exactly, but am not seeing the rectangle until right as I close the game... not sure where I went wrong
In these cases it's usually a small typo or missed indentation somewhere. Maybe your screen.flip() is outside the main game loop? Double check the code and see if you can track the issue.
@@CodingWithRuss thanks so much for your reply! Still trying to track down the issue, but running into the game just crashing every time I try to play it, even though there's still no rectangle. I'm going to keep at it though!
it says that SCREEN_WIDTH is not defined. Can someone please help?
Hi! your video is clear and great for beginer like me XD, I would like to ask why the coordinate on Y-axis number is opposite from the general format that we learn on math? From your video key W/moving upward(0, -1) and S/moving downward(0, 1)? I tried W(0, 1) and S(0, -1) turns up moving opposite
It's just the way the pygame coordinate system is setup. The y axis is flipped so the top of the screen is (0, 0) and then the y coordinate increases down the screen.
HOW DO YOU RUN THE CODE IN PYTHON VS CODE
Very helpful! Thanks so much for sharing!
Glad you liked it!
When I run the code it says
[WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
[cmd: ['py', '-u', 'C:\\Users\\kaiyi\\OneDrive\\Desktop\\KQ\\Python\\Maze game.py']]
[dir: C:\Users\kaiyi\OneDrive\Desktop\KQ\Python]
[path:C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\ProgramFiles\dotnet\;C:\Users\kaiyi\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts\;C:\Users\kaiyi\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\;C:\Users\kaiyi\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\kaiyi\.dotnet\tools]
[Finished]
what do I do?
Can u help with removing the default print of that Hello from Pygame community??? PLEASE BRO
If I already have installed Python, is there then a way I can "add python.exe to PATH"?
Cool thank you!
Glad you liked it!