Python Game Development

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1. Recommended Resources

Introduction

1. Who is this book for ?
2. What this book covers ?

Chapter 1: Learning Python by building a simple game

1. Installing Python
2. Running an IDE
3. Telling Python what to do
4. Advanced turtle
5. Learning Python by making a game

Chapter 2: Use the Pygame Module to build a Game Framework

1. Getting started with Pygame
2. Setting up your first Pygame script
3. Code sections
4. Setting the background
5. Look out for errors
6. Running the game
7. Looping
8. Freeze your Python environment
9. Code

Chapter 3: Adding a Player to your Python Game

1. Create a Python class
2. Bring the player into the game world
3. Setting the alpha channel
4. Setting your own alpha

Chapter 4: Move your Character around using PyGame

1. Setting up keys for controlling your player sprite
2. Coding the player movement function
3. Updating the sprite graphic
4. Flipping your sprite
5. All the code used so far

Chapter 5: Adding a villain to your PyGame

1. Creating the enemy sprite
2. Spawning an enemy
3. Drawing a sprite on screen
4. Level one
5. Hitting the enemy
6. Moving the enemy

Chapter 6: Adding Platforms to your PyGame

1. Coding platform objects
2. Types of platforms
3. Level mapping
4. Coordinates
5. Image sizes
6. Platform blocks
7. Tiled platforms
8. Applying what you know

Chapter 7: Adding Gravity to your PyGame

1. Adding a gravity function
2. Adding a floor to gravity

Chapter 8: Add Jumping to your PyGame

1. Setting jump state variables
2. Conditional gravity
3. Programming solid ground
4. Jumping in Pygame
5. Calling the jump function
6. Landing on a platform
7. Falling

Chapter 9: Running Forward and Backward in your PyGame

1. Putting the scroll in side-scroller
2. Enemy scroll

Chapter 10: Putting some loot in your game

1. Creating the loot function
2. Scrolling loot
3. Detecting collisions
4. Applying what you know

Chapter 11: Adding Score to your game

1. Displaying the score in Pygame
2. Read the docs
3. Deciphering technical documentation
4. Using a font in Pygame
5. Asset management
6. Using a font in Pygame
7. Displaying text in Pygame
8. Interpreting errors
9. Running the game
10. Fixing the health counter
11. Level up

Chapter 12: Add throwing mechanics to the game

1. Create the throwable class
2. Measure time to live
3. Set up your throwable object
4. Get throwing in the main loop
5. Detect collisions
6. Change the throw mechanic direction

Chapter 13: Adding sound to the game

1. Start the mixer
2. Define the sounds
3. Add sound to Pygame
4. Trigger a sound
5. Add background music
6. Enjoy the soundscapes

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