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I just wanna tell you how much this helped me. I started out knowing nothing about pygame and when you went along with the video i actually did a lot of the things you did later myself, starting to understand how this all works. Now i'm adding things like powerups and i'm having a blast. Can't wait to show this to my buddies when summer vacation ends and we can play this together. I never thought i could make ANYTHING like this

16:25 fps implementation 17:44 creating and defining the spaceships 32:39 movement keys

How tf this dude can code for almost 2 hours and not open stack overflow and like 30 tabs? Wizard. Wizard I say.

You're a very good tutor, definitely an educator level. You explain what you write, the purpose and how a code or line of code is used. Readability is also important, the highlight effect, the zoom-in. Unlike most tutorial videos, they only say what they type which we (the viewers) are already looking at, or what is worse is they don't bother zooming in their codes, they are like texts from mini bible. Thank you so much.

Great tutorial! One small comment: When rotating the images, the height and width change as well. That is what caused the problems with border and that is why the bullets don't shoot out from the middle of the spaceship. And why the bullets start in front of the spaceship.(That's why Tim added + 15, which is the difference between height and weight, 55-40 = 15). To correct the border you can change yellow.height to yellow.width in the yellow_handle_movement. To correct the bullets, you can change yellow.width to yellow.height in the Main function at the bullet movement.(bullet = pygame.Rect(yellow.x + yellow.height, yellow.y + yellow.width//2 - 2, 10, 5))

I don't comment lot of videos, but this one was great. 1) There was not only code from a to z, but every step was explained. 2) Code that was made is obtainable for example. Thx DUDE! Two thumbs up!

I love your tutorials Tim, and something funny i found in the video: Tim: 'im gonna write some code and go abit faster now, but we gonna go through it after' Tim: going exactly the same nice and calm speed and explaining everything as he goes xD

I think the reason why can go further down than the button at 48:25 is that you've rotated the spaceship. So now height is technically width and width is height. If you change the variables in the if-statement it should work fine.

I've started learning python this week, coming for 2 months of learning C++, this has got me so excited,. I'm still a newbie programmer but these things just leave a person wanting more and more, it's very exciting and encouraging that someone starting with 0 programming skills can use these videos and other sources to learn and become a better progammer in my case as a great suplement for my ciber-security degree. Great video and all the best.

The perfect guide for pefecting the art of perfection in Pygame

Thank you so much for the tutorial. I had a project in school where I had to pick a skill, learn it for a month, and make an end project and this video has made all the difference. I understood the parts of Python you were using, what they were doing, and how to modify them to fit my needs which is great. Very rarely do I find a tutorial that helps me learn rather than copy but I'm glad I found one today.

From the 6 hours full python tutorial to here.... Thank u Tim~

Really nice that you kept the bugfixing in there because that's like 90% of the work. Showing how to fix code is almost as valuable as showing how to write new code.

For anyone who followed the tutorial and want to practice more of what you learned, here's some things you could do to make the game better. -Add a collision check to the bullets so if they collide, they destroy each other -Add poer ups that you can pick up and will increase the amount of bullets you can fire, increase bullet speed etc... -Add a healt system so you can get hit more times before you die -You could also add a healtbar if you're adding a healt system -You can also add different firing modes, like holding down a different key will shoot 2 bullets next to each other etc... -You could also add a border that slowly shrinks the space you can move around to prevent stalemates -You could add a score system That's just some ideas that came to mind and i'm implementing some of them already myself

As a beginner python coder: your tutorials help me so much. Keep making them!

Im at minute 15 and I already love this! I am an experienced developer, andf I appreciate a lot the detail and the easy explanations

Thank you so much Tech With Tim, I am only 10 - though I've done some python before, and I can nearly completely understand everything!

This is a truly great tutorial! You could have just made little “pew, pew, pew” noises for the firing and “blam” for the collisions. That would have sounded cute!

For your problem at 48:20 its actually a pretty easy fix the rectangles you drew for the spaceship to be blit in are rotated incorrect just change the height and width in the main Yours: red = pygame.Rect(100, 450, SPACESHIP_WIDTH, SPACESHIP_HEIGTH) Fixed: red = pygame.Rect(100, 450, SPACESHIP_HEIGHT, SPACESHIP_WIDTH) Change that for both and it should be fine :) This also fixes the greater distance to the middle border. But great tutorial!!!

He is a great explainer. The way that he explains concepts is so cool.

Hi Tim, it is unlikely that you will see this but I just want to thank you for all of your Great tutorials. I would also like to ask if you could show a more advanced version of this tutorial or maybe how to make a platformer game with gravity and other stuff.

Thanks for this video. Really appreciate it! Just a tip: When people click on your video, they know they're watching a video. Consider not telling your viewers they're watching another video on KZfaq and tell people what they're going to see without explicitly telling them "we're going to go over."

Loved the tutorial! The three hours I spent carefully going over each piece of the tutorial and taking notes really paid off - finally made my first pygame powered python game 😀. Hope you keep making amazing videos 🔥🔥🔥 ❤

Hey Tim, Could you please make tutorials on Data Structures & Algorithms with Python..🤞 It would be very helpful.. Hope you would make tutorials on DS soon..😊😊

The way you always try to make the code a little bit more dynamic, really make this tutorial hundred times better. Thank you some much 😀

I'm new to coding and was struggling after the basics, this really helped me to get an insight and i watched a bunch of tutorials and was almost on the verge of loosing hope. Most of the videos out there are hard to understand with the logic maybe because they don't know or they just posting it for the views. but your contents are really different and you know what you talking about, Teaching or programming you will reach great heights bro. Thanks again , Love your content. wish that you had more followers so you can earn profit and we can get some proper intel. Guys other than watching toxic tik tok suggestion Give a thumbs up here.

Also find out is that it is best to move the if winner_text != "" section to after draw_window in the main(), this will allow the health to be properly displayed to 0, then the game will show who is the winner. Whereas original setup will declare the winner when the health is still showing 1. hopefully this helps anyone wanting to make the game even more polished.

The problem you had with the spaceship going off the border is because of mixing up height and width when you rotated the spaceship. Here is a correct version: def red_movement(keys_pressed, red): if keys_pressed[pygame.K_LEFT]: # if left key is pressed if (red.x - VEL - 5) < (WIDTH/2): pass else: red.x -= VEL if keys_pressed[pygame.K_RIGHT]: if (red.x + VEL + SPACESHIP_HEIGHT) > WIDTH: pass else: red.x += VEL if keys_pressed[pygame.K_DOWN]: if (red.y + 4 + SPACESHIP_WIDTH) > HEIGHT: pass else: red.y += VEL if keys_pressed[pygame.K_UP]: if (red.y - 4) < (HEIGHT -HEIGHT): pass else: red.y -= VELdef red_movement(keys_pressed, red): if keys_pressed[pygame.K_LEFT]: # if left key is pressed if (red.x - VEL - 5) < (WIDTH/2): pass else: red.x -= VEL if keys_pressed[pygame.K_RIGHT]: if (red.x + VEL + SPACESHIP_HEIGHT) > WIDTH: pass else: red.x += VEL if keys_pressed[pygame.K_DOWN]: if (red.y + 4 + SPACESHIP_WIDTH) > HEIGHT: pass else: red.y += VEL if keys_pressed[pygame.K_UP]: if (red.y - 4) < (HEIGHT -HEIGHT): pass else: red.y -= VEL

For anyone else wondering why the bottom part of the ship was going through the bottom of the window and how to fix that without manually adding pixels to it the problem is that he set the width and height of the spaceship as constants... then he rotated the image by 90 degrees which made the height be the width and the width be the height so just switch the values around for the rects and that should make it so you don't have to manually adjust for not going through the top and bottom, and bullets properly hit the ship

Thanks for the clear explanation on how pygame works. My final project for Python II is due in 2 weeks and you just saved my life.

37:36 you have no idea how much happy I was when I reached till this point. Even the simplest thing can make a person soo happy

Im at 45:00 in your video, and granted i have taken everything very slowly and wrote special notes in my own code so i can come back and refer here, this is SOOO helpful. i was getting bored doing tutorials and this is making me have fun now. So far i have two working spaceships with the border in the middle and im sittin here so happy that i made it. Even if i was following ur code. Im gonna finish these and continue to do projects cuz im learning a lot of applications of the code as well as growing a little project base of my own that i can always come back to and refer to and look at my own notes about why the code is written the way it is, and its like my own little cheatsheet of code with applications that i KNOW work. Great vid! vscode makes this soooo much better too. i was still using IDLE before i switched to vsc lol

Thank you Tim for this AMAZING tutorial! This is the first time I am able to follow through a coding video because I am a beginner and it was hard finding a tutorial that explain codes and train of thoughts in this much detail. I felt much more confident in coding now with this tutorial and am very motivated to learn more! Thanks a lot really :)

Thanks ,Tim. I love it .and .....You have rotated the spaceship by 90 degrees, so the values of the height and width of the spaceship should be swapped."

I am grateful that you are zooming in on the code part.

The fact that he kept going even when he spilled water on himself-

This guy is severely underrated.

I replaced the sound effects to wav format. Now works great. Thanks Tim for this awesome tutorial!

TECH WITH TIM IS A GOD. I did a 3 hour tutorial about Pygame before that was worthless. Thank you for creating these types of great videos Tim!

Thank you so much. After I watch this, I hope I'll be able to create fun games for some kids in my neighborhood!

Hey the problem with ships not moving good around the border (going under the screen and cant touch the border on the right) is because we made our hitboxes/collision before they were rotated , so collision boxes are placed horizontal and not vertical , all you have to do is switch the SPACESHIP_WIDTH and SPACESHIP_HEIGHT values but then switch them while scaling the picture (YELLOW_SPACESHIP and RED_SPACESHIP), anyway thank you for getting me into python programming @Tech With Tim !

Hey Tim, I followed along with the tutorial and it works out great than I expected ❤!~ Thank you for this amazing video🌹

You are awesome. I did a 1,5 year program in information technologies, and have been working in C# since the last year. Your explanation about CPU frequency and frames per second is awesome. I really enjoyed your video

Thanks Tim for the great tutorial! The problem with sound likely is the file path. The filename has ‘+’, I removed that and works fine here.

I can't even begin to describe how much grateful I'm for this video. Thanks a lot

Tim I got to tell you every time I look up something for coding your always there thanks for the help

Hey man, just thought I'd let you know that I made sure to come back and watch your sponsor spot. Ppl bringing knowledge to the masses for free should always be rewarded IMO. Good shit!

1:16:04 Just saving for now. Thanks Tim, super excited for 2D game-dev !!

I was wanting to learn PyGame as I hadn't really done anything with it before, and this video just came out. You're actually amazing

I've done a bit of commercial Python (many years ago) but never used Pygame. I'm now trying to teach a friend's son how to program, and this tutorial was so clear and well structured that it'll make that job a lot easier. Great job!

Tim, thank you so much. It took me a few hours to do this and to make it run perfectly but it was so fun to do it. Amazing tutorial, well explained and also the sound effects are awesome.

11:58 That was my first ever pygame window so I think you'll find it was actually very exciting!!

Hey Tim, found the cause of your problem at 48:20 with the ship going outside the screen. Because you have rotated the image now the width and height have swapped thus your image does not match the rect anymore. Loved your video by the way!

48:20 It is because in line 43 we put yellow.height instead of yellow.width. We rotated the spaceship image so now the vertical size is width and the horizontal size is height.

Thank you so much! It was my first time learning pygame. I successfully launched the game!

Hi Tim, Thanks for the great tutorial, the code and the assets. I think the problem with the ships going off the bottom and being way of the border etc,. is because the images were rotated but the ship's rectangles weren't. I just switched the width and heights where red and yellow were created and it removed the need for the adjustments. I apologise if you were already aware of this by now 😁

for anyone getting a 'pygame.error: video system not initialized' error - just import the 'sys' module and add the 'sys.exit()' function underneath the pygame.quit() function learned that trick from the flappy bird tutorial lmao

I enjoyed following this tutorial. Along the way i noticed some of your not syntax related mistakes which was cool, and i made my own sounds w sfxr. I love how simple and understandable are your explenations. Even tho the music didnt work i still this was great, thank you for posting this tutorial for free

Very overwhelming at first but this is a very good guide on learning game dev with pygame, thank you so much!

Thank you so much Tim, such a wonderful tutorial ! You really made it look all very easy, glad that I found your channel on KZfaq ! 😀

Thank you so much Tim, such a wonderful tutorial ! You really made it look all very easy, glad that I found your channel on KZfaq !

If you are on mac and using mac keyboard, change the shooting key for the red ship to K_RALT as option key is marked as alt.

You just indirectly gave me a genius idea to handle window blits WAY more efficiently in my project THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Hey Tim, We need a video on some hashing algorithms python btw I also need this video. Thanks Tim.

You covered so much in just one video. Thank you.

A rare experience: Everything worked! Even the sound. I learned a lot. Thanks!

This helped a lot and I think the reason why the ship went of screen 48:40 was because the ship had been rotated so the width and height were swapped so trying to add or subtract 55 instead of 40

One thing I'm worried about is when you finish a game round, you restart by calling the main() function from within the main() function. This means that the original call to the main() function never gets closed. Wouldn't this cause an increase in memory use after every game round? Given that this is a simple game, you'd probably need to play an insane number of rounds before your computer crashes with an "out of memory error" or similar, but if the game was much bigger, this may become a problem. How about not calling main() in line 177 and instead change line 180+ to: if __name__ == "__main__": while True: main()

Instead of duplicating, you could use the same function to handle both red and yellow keypresses. Just use the player variable to decide which ship to move, less unnecessary code repetition

I've learned more in 30 minutes on this video than my high school teacher was able to get across in 6 months.

In one of my last comments I wrote that I will follow you everywhere. I kept my promise, came here - and it is great again.

This was such a good tutorial. As a beginner to pygame this gave me so many things to play around with. Thank you!

hi Tim thank you for all of these tutorials you helped me a lot I am a 10 years old python programer who started coding at the age of 9 you helped me a lot thanks

Thank you so much man saved me a ton! your other tutorial was a bit hard to follow I love how clear this new one is !

This is pure gold! Thank you so much Tim, its really useful to learn new topics developing a project, even more so if you have such a great instructor like you. ❤

Amazing tutorial tim! Keep it up.

Finally, a great tutorial for pygame, got this game working on my said in about 3 hours and it was so worth it!

🤯🤯🤯 To understand this for me, need to watch 1000 times, probably?! And need to learn Python again few more times 🤪

i was genuinely shocked when i saw his face for the first time

I will do this great tutorial as many times as possible until I can teach Pygame to others. As Tim said in another video, the best way to learn is to teach.

Thanks for this amazing tutorial! I forgot all about pygame and this kept me back up to date.

Man i wish there was someone that explained JavaScript this detailed and clear with each step. You alone are making me reconsider learning python as my first

Why do his ships move so smoothly, yet on my pc the movement is really delayed and choppy?

This tutorial is so perfect.

I really appreciate the way you explain why things are the way they are!

Thanks so much for the tutorial it really helps, I've mastered C# and I'm moving on to python and wanting to master it, you've helped me on my journey to master python. Thankyou so much for your quality tutorials!

Exploit for the pro-players, if you spam shoot while the game reloads you'll send a mega shot 😉

There is a bug I noticed. If you continue to press CTRL to fire during the PLAYER WINS! message, the shots will be registered and fired automatically when the next round starts, even without pressing anything! What's worse, it will buffer up to 3 shots, 2 of which are invisible! My solution is to clear the keyboard input after the winner massage is displayed. I added this line at the end of the draw_winner() function: pygame.event.clear(eventtype=pygame.KEYDOWN) This clears the key inputs after the pause and fixes the problem.

Have been fiding it really hard to get into programming, this was the perfect TUT to really get started.

I enjoyed every step of this tutorial. Thanks a lot. For the sound, I used (.wav) audio files instead of (.mp3) and it worked!

Is there a way for me to develop an "android game" using pygame . I mean does the library support touch inputs ?

Hey Tim! I had a question. Which according to you is better: Pygame or Kivy?

Thank You So Much For This! I wanted to learn pygame and was looking for a great starter tutorial and without a doubt in my mind this was it! This and other tutorials made by you are always so high-quality. Again Thank You!

Thank you very much for the tutorial. I just wanted to add that the two problems in the borders (down and right) can be fixed by first rotating and then resizing the images

You should also consider teaching unity😃

Tim can you make this game online multiplayer . and show us how you did it. pls

You're the best python tutor in the world, Tim!!!!!!!!!!

Your code is so beautifully written! I'm not skilled at reading other peoples' code, but yours is a rare exception.

great tutorial so far! But I'm having problems importing the images. I've tried many thing like moving the python file to the assets folder and getting rid of the 'Assests' and just trying 'spaceship_yellow'. My spelling is correct too. But every time i try to run the program its says, "FileNotFoundError: No such file or directory." plz help