Lesson 9 of 28

Intro to pygame

pygame lets you make 2D games with a window, images, sound and keyboard input. Every game runs a loop: handle input, update, draw.

Key points

pip install pygame
The game loop runs ~60 times a second
clock.tick(60) limits the speed

import pygame
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480))
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
running = True
while running:
    for e in pygame.event.get():
        if e.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False
    screen.fill((10, 16, 32))
    pygame.display.flip()
    clock.tick(60)

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Quiz · +10 XP

Intro to pygame

Key points

What are the three steps of a game loop?