Python, PyGame, and Raspberry Pi Game Development

© Sloan Kelly  2019

Sloan KellyPython, PyGame, and Raspberry Pi Game Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4533-0_11

11. Game Project: Bricks

Sloan Kelly¹ 

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Niagara Falls, ON, Canada

 

In this chapter we’ll review Bricks, our first game project. For those of you who haven’t played this game before, you control a bat at the bottom of the screen (Figure 11-1). There is a collection of bricks above you and using the ball you must destroy all the bricks by hitting them with the ball.

Sounds simple enough, but in this project, we’ll learn about

• Player movement

• Automatic (non-player) movement

• Collision detection

• Displaying images

Figure 11-1.

The main brick ...