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29. Project 10: Do-It-Yourself Arcade Game

Magnus Lie Hetland

(1)Trondheim, Norway

Welcome to the final project. Now that you’ve sampled several of Python’s many capabilities, it’s time to go out with a bang. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use Pygame, an extension that enables you to write full-fledged, full-screen arcade games in Python. Although easy to use, Pygame is quite powerful and consists of several components that are thoroughly described in the Pygame documentation (available on the Pygame web site, http://pygame.org ). This project introduces you to some of the main Pygame concepts, but because this chapter is only meant as a starting ...

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