CHAPTER 14
Introduction to Sprites
Our games need support for handling objects that collide. Balls bouncing off paddles, laser beams hitting aliens, or our favorite character collecting a coin. All these examples require collision detection.
The pygame library has support for sprites. A sprite is a two-dimensional image that is part of the larger graphical scene. Typically a sprite will be some kind of object in the scene that will be interacted with like a car, frog, or little plumber guy.
Originally, video game consoles had built-in hardware ...
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