Beginning Python Games Development: With Pygame, Second Edition

Beginning Python Games Development, Second Edition teaches you how to create compelling games using Python and the PyGame games development library. It will teach you how to create visuals, do event handling, create 3D games, add media elements, and integrate OpenGL into your Python game.

In this update to the first ever book to cover the popular open source PyGame games development library, you'll stand to gain valuable technical insights and follow along with the creation of a real-world, freely downloadable video game. Written by industry veterans and Python experts Will McGugan and Harrison Kinsley, this is a comprehensive, practical introduction to games development in Python. You can also capitalize upon numerous tips and tricks the authors have accumulated over their careers creating games for some of the world's largest game developers.

What you’ll learn

• How to use PyGame with Python for game development
• How to create visuals; do event handling; and more
• How to do 3D game development using Python
• How to add media elements
• How to create visually dynamic backgrounds by integrating some OpenGL and more into your Python-based game
• How to build a game project step by step

Who this book is for

This book is for Python coders wanting to learn how to build their first games. Game developers who may be new to Python and PyGame can use this book; a Python primer is included.

About the Authors

Harrison Kinsley is a software developer and entrepreneur living in Texas. He has multiple businesses, all built with Python. http://pythonprogramming.net is a Python programming tutorials website built by him, which is paired with his YouTube channel, offering almost a thousand tutorials on Python. The website itself is also written in Python's Flask, and there's even a tutorial for it! Sentdex.com is another business, which is aimed at using Python for Natural Language Processing to produce sentiment analysis on a wide variety of topics, hopefully to eventually become a sentiment search engine. Sentdex's front-end is Python's Flask, and the back-end is also written in Python. Harrison also manages a SaaS company for Bitcoin, among a few other businesses.

Will McGugan is a software developer living and working in northwest England. He has worked in video games and computer graphics since the early days of 3D and has created several shareware games in his spare time. Will works for Evolution Studios, one of the world's leading games development studios. He also has extensive experience in application development, having worked in the field of user interface creation and video conferencing. His current interests include application and web development in Python.