Game development software based on the Python programming language.
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Top down pygame collision detection
I'm writing a top down game and I'm trying to figure out how to make certain types of terrains impassable.
I have a dictionary of sprites:
terrains = [{"sprite": black}, {"sprite": dirt}, {"sprite": ...
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How to march tiles together like in Terraria?
I've been trying to get tile marching to work like in Terraria, and I got something to work. I don't think it's actually very good way of doing this, so I'm wondering what would be really the main way ...
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Getting collision detection in Pygames
I am writing a game in Pygame, I want to get collision detection. The aim is when a object hits another, the target object disappears. I want to avoid having classes and just have my code class less ...
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Pygame 2d map error [closed]
I'm writing a Legend of Zelda like game in pygame.
I have this code for loading a map from a text file.
#Load maps
f = open ("map1","r")#This file is a text file containing only: 1
map01 = f.read()
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How can I get post-processing effects with pygame?
I'd like to be able to make the screen like blurry and wavy, like when a player enters a portal in Minecraft.
How would I make this with pygame?
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Sprite erasing text in Pygame
I'm making a Pong clone in which the user can press the 'p' button to pause/unpause the game. When the user presses the 'p' button the word 'PAUSE' is drawn to the screen and when he presses again the ...
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Monster attack is not randomising right [closed]
I have a code that I've been messing around with and the monster attack (monster.ma)
isn't randomising after the first time it's called upon (elif statement). I've tried to make it a tuple since they ...
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Crossfade Between Two Music Tracks in Pygame
My intention is to have two music tracks, which are similar in nature, fade between each other at various times. When such a fade occurs, one music track should fade from full volume to muted in a ...
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Pygame - CollideRect - But How Do They Collide?
I'm having some trouble figuring out how I can handle collisions that are specifically colliding on the top or bottom a rect. How can specify those collisions?
Here's a little code snippet to give ...
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How to make an image bounce off the edges of the screen in Pygame?
I'm making a simple game where I bounce and image off the sides of the screen (a bit like the ball bounces in Pong) but I can't seem to the the bouncing part to work. Instead of bouncing of the edges ...
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How to get the angle to an object from angle you are facing [duplicate]
I am making an creature simulator where the creatures have a neural net for a brain.
One of the inputs to the net is the angle it has to travel to go to be facing the nearest piece of food. I can get ...
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Tile based map player movement
I'm doing a tile based 2d rpg in pygame. The problem I'm working on right now is character movement...
I am already able to create a map by using multidimensional arrays and a 'camera' follows the ...
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Adding lighting pygame
I have created a day and nigh cycle in a game of mine by drawing a rectangle over the screen and having it's alpha change constantly. However, I obviously want to add some lighting to the game. Is ...
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Pygame Particle Emitter Problems
so I've been trying to create a basic particle system in pygame which I can later expand upon but I've run into a spot of bother creating the particle emitter. Obviously what's supposed to happen is ...
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pygame double buffering
I am trying to use double buffering in pygame. What I'm trying to do is display a red then green screen, and switch from one to the other. Unfortunately, all I have is a black screen. I looked through ...
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Game physics movement
I am trying to write some code in Pygame that will achieve smooth movement from place to another. I've been able to do some nice physics for jumping but when I need to move horizontally I am not sure ...
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Random/Procedural vs. Previously Made Level Generation
I am making a game (called "Glory") that is a top-down explorer game, and am wondering what the advantages/disadvantages of using random/procedural generation vs. pre-made levels are.
There seems to ...
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Finding vectors with two points
We're are trying to get the direction of a projectile but we can't find out how
For example:
[1,1] will go SE
[1,-1] will go NE
[-1,-1] will go NW
and [-1,1] will go SW
we need an equation of ...
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Python + Pygame - Collision problems
I'm currently developing a game in Python + Pygame and i came up with a problem with the player and the platforms. The game is a 'runner' where the player it's fixed (The 'x' position isn't variable, ...
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Lightning Effect PyGame [closed]
I want to create a Lightning Effect Like http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mmU2GAYGVSU for my game.
The following blog explains it briefly but I am not able to understand the ...
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PyGame sprite assistance
I've basically just started developing with PyGame and I am having trouble with the whole Sprite concept. I have been looking every where for guides on how to use it, I just can't seem to find any. I ...
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Installing the right version of PyGame
I've been trying to install PyGame for Python, and can't seem to get Python to recognize that it's there. I use Python 3.3, and have a 64-bit Windows computer, but that's really all I know. The ...
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Pygame top down shooter firing bullets
I'm working on a top down shooter in pygame and am having trouble getting bullets to fire. I'm using a class for the bullets, I'll show what I think is the relevant code.
This is what I do after the ...
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How to make a map surface object
I'm making a 2d tile based game. In pygame I could create a map like this:
screen = pygame.display(resolution)
map = pygame.Surface(width, height)
for tile in all_tiles:
map.blit(tile)
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pygame performance issues
I'm trying to make a tactics game using python and the infamous pygame library. I use threading for networking and pathfinding. The game uses a p2p lockstep architecture, with one of the players ...
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Pygame: circular motion with Bresenham's algorithm
I'm trying to figure out a way to move an object in a circular path. I read about Bresenham's circle algorithm, but all the codes available online draw an entire circle.
For my game, I want it so ...
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Python mini RPG enemy movement. (how to have two infinite loops running at the same time)
I have a problem with my RPG.
I want enemys to wander randomly. So I put:
enx_speed = random.randint(-2, 2)
eny_speed = random.randint(-2, 2)
in the main loop (while true: )
But that loops every ...
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Pong pygame problem
I've been following a tutorial to make my first Pong clone. Here is the tutorial:
http://muagames.com/tutorials/pygame-3-pong/pygame-3-pong-step-1/
When I try to run it I get this error message:
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How do I determine if one value is within a certain range of another in Python
I've been working on the attacking in my RPG.
The problem I have recently encountered is, I have to be in Exactly the same x coordinate as the Enemy. When I want to attack the enemy this is what ...
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RPG movement holding down button
I've been writing a simple top down mini RPG in python.
My problem is that when I move the player I have to repeatedly tap the arrow key. Each time I tap the key the player moves 5 PX in the ...
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Flixel or Pygame for a small game? [closed]
I have some experience in Bash and Python, Lua.
I've always wanted to try and make point & click quest games. Most
quest games I loved aesthetically and gameplay wise were made with
Flash.
So ...
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Solving the riddle on distributing a python built game?
So, I've done the research, and i've done the try/catch process of almost getting things to work. . . almost.
I've read this chart: ...
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Pygame Bounding Box at Player Feet
I'm new to python and pygame and am trying to build a very simple "game" (it's more of a test for me to figure things out) in which you move a character around the screen and he can collide with walls ...
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pygame object returns wrong button object
Another question from dumb developer :)
I have class for window:
class MainMenuWindow(Window):
# singeltone:
_instance = None
def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
if not cls._instance:
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Geometry problem for area of sight
My player have a line of sight and all objects between the white lines, turns red.
To compute this, the following conditions are met: if the angle between the yellow line and the red line are small ...
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Pygame fails on KEYDOWN with Russian keyboard layout
When I press a keyboard button on a keyboard with a Russian layout, my application pygame game crashes with this message:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u0444' in ...
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Collision in PyGame for spinning rectangular object.touching circles
I'm creating a variation of Pong. One of the differences is that I use a rectangular structure as the object which is being bounced around, and I use circles as paddles. So far, all the collision ...
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Pathfiding for groups of agents
How can we refine this path search method to make group movement more elegant? I'm trying to make a RTS-style game, using a 2d tiled gameworld. I have implemented an A* pathfinding algorithm which ...
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Pygame 2D Scrolling Map
I have currently a pygame program that stores tiles in a 2d list like
[[1,1,1]
[1,1,1]
[1,1,1]]
where the 1 is a tile object. I have the character centered in the middle of the screen, and I am ...
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How to implement rectangle selection?
I don't know if there is another term for it, but I mean this: You hold down a mouse button. A rectangle forms when you move the mouse around. The units inside the box get selected when you let go of ...
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smooth movement pygame
Hello im trying to learn more about smoother movement in games. I have created a little program to hopefully help me understand this. As far as i can tell i am suppose to track time, and update ...
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Pygame animation with different size sprites
I'm trying to create a simple top-view 2D rpg, in the style of Zelda and Secret of Mana, using PyGame. I've managed to make the beginnings of a game, with an animated character walking around. ...
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Pygame's rotation methods have crippling issues, but is it me or Python's pygame?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNJFxvR6ex8&feature=youtu.be
On rotate and rotozoom, can't find fixes on these on the internet, anywhere.
Basically, the video is showing 4 things in this order:
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Pygame set_colorkey transparency issues
I'm having a strange issue that I cannot seem to remedy. I am doing some prototyping with Pygame on a desktop running windows and a laptop running OS X. Both are running python v2.7.3 (installed via ...
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When to use pygame.sprite.GroupSingle?
I'm doing a game in which i have a ball which is controlled by the keyboard and the goal is to get is out of a maze without touching the walls.
I've added my ball sprite to GroupSprite
vehicle = ...
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Meaning of offset in pygame Mask.overlap methods
I have a situation in which two rectangles collide, and I have to detect how much did they collide so so I can redraw the objects in a way that they are only touching each others edges.
It's a ...
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How do I implement unit selection in this program?
I'm trying to implement unit selection on a large, scrollable surface.
# Arbitrary values for window size
self.w, self.h = 1600, 900
# Game world surface, everything gets blitted to this, which is ...
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Pygame performance issue for many images
I've made a script for generating a game world based off of image pixel data.
Trying to make a python map editor
My progress so far has resulted in a program which loads an image and draws sprites ...
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Trying to make a python map editor
The program is supposed to read the pixel color values from an image, and use that data as a map for where to place objects in a game world.
Getting the color values was easy enough:
import numpy
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Pygame - Change sprite collision Rect
I'm making a platformer in Pygame. One of the sprites I'm using is a flag, and I want to detect if the player collides with the flagpole (just like in Super Mario Bros). The problem is that the image ...
