Intro to Pygame

Goals

• Understand where to get the Pygame Template

• Understand the parts of the template

  • Importing

  • Initialization

  • Game loop

    • Event handling

    • Game state updates

    • Drawing

• Quick look at the cheatsheet

Video Tutorial

What you need to do

• Create a new Python file. Do not name this file pygame.py or it will not work.

• Paste the template into that file.

• Run the file.

• You should see a window pop up with a white background and a blue circle (shown below).

Running the Pygame Template