Game Programming Section

Here you will find some code related to game programming, mostly in Python and using PyGame (SDL Wrapper for Python). They are not real games or projects, but examples to introduce people to this wonderful area that is game programming. These examples should be multiplataform, if you cannot run them on your plataform, please contact-me. Note that some examples lack a tutorial and some may have a tutorial, but in Portuguese, even some comments are in this language, but the code itself is in English and should be easy enough to learn by reading it.

Examples Description

pingpong

This is a ping pong game, it's a simple example of dirty rectangles, since it doesn't redraw the screen every time. This example is easy enough to get started, it have less than 500 lines of code.

pingpong-net

This is a modified version of the aforementioned pingpong, but this one is to be played over network. It uses XML-RPC to avoid coding protocols, thus making the development easier. This example is a little more complex then the non-network version, but it's still easy to understand and have less than 900 lines of code.

jogo

This is a complete tutorial of Game development, it gives an overview on how to split up things, plan classes, make it extensible, etc. It uses an incremental approach, each version have a diff to the previous so you can see more easily what changed. The tutorial itself is in Portuguese, as the comments, but the code (variable, methods, classes, ...) are in English, so you can follow it, just read the code.

References

• http://www.pygame.org
• http://www.python.org
• http://www.libsdl.org