Program Arcade Games: With Python and Pygame

ISBN-13: 9781484217894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 392 str.

Paul Craven

Opis

Learn and use Python and PyGame to design and build cool arcade games. In Program Arcade Games: With Python and PyGame, Second Edition, Dr. Paul Vincent Craven teaches you how to create fun and simple quiz games; integrate and start using graphics; animate graphics; integrate and use game controllers; add sound and bit-mapped graphics; and build grid-based games. After reading and using this book, you'll be able to learn to program and build simple arcade game applications using one of today's most popular programming languages, Python. You can even deploy onto Steam and other Linux-based game systems as well as Android, one of today's most popular mobile and tablet platforms. You'll learn:

• How to create quiz games
• How to integrate and start using graphics
• How to animate graphics
• How to integrate and use game controllers
• How to add sound and bit-mapped graphics
How to build grid-based games

AudienceThis book assumes no prior programming knowledge.

Recenzje

"This book does a superb job of fitting programming concepts - and Python learning - to building several games with the ever useful Pygame library. ... Aimed at younger readers, but accessible to all, Craven's teaching experience shows through in both tone and pace ... . Plentiful exercises, including a whole chapter at the end revisiting every project in the book, drive the lessons deep. Well written, well developed, and ... very enjoyable to work through." (The MagPi, Issue 46, June, 2016)

Spis treści

0. Before getting started...

1. Create a Custom Calculator

2. What is a Computer Language?

3. Quiz Games and If Statements

4. Guessing Games with Random Numbers and Loops

5. Introduction to Graphics

6. Back to Looping

7. Introduction to Lists

8. Introduction to Animation

9. Functions

10. Controllers and Graphics

11. Bitmapped Graphics and Sound

12. Introduction to Classes

13. Introduction to Sprites

14. Libraries and Modules

15. Searching

16. Array-Backed Grids

17. Sorting

18. Exceptions

19. Recursion

20. Formatting

21. Labs

22. Appendix A. Example code and programs

23. Appendix B: Sample Tests

24. Appendix C: Worksheets

25. Appendix D: Version Control

26. Appendix E: Wait, What Else Can We Do?

O autorze

Dr. Paul Vincent Craven graduated with a bachelors degree from Simpson College, a masters from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and a doctorate from the University of Idaho. He worked in the industry for fifteen years before deciding to teach full time at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.

Blurb

This fine book shows you how to build fun, cool arcade games using the Python programming language and the PyGame framework, a Python-based game application development engine.  Use Python and Pygame to learn and build arcade games!

What You'll Learn

• How to create quiz games
  
• How to start using graphics
  
• How to create and animate graphics
  
• How to integrate and use game controllers
  
• How to add sound and bitmapped graphics
  
• How to build grid-based games