Questions tagged [python]
Python is a dynamically and strongly typed programming language that encourages readability.
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How do I store a branching board game path in python
I thought a fun way for my son and I to learn and improve our python programming skills respectively is to digitize one of his (and my and my mom's when we were his age) favorite board games, "...
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How do I make a 'surface' using pyglet, like in gamemaker studio?
For a project I've been working on, I need to know how to draw to a surface/texture/whatever, that could be used as a texture for binding to a vertex list.
I'm fairly new to python/pyglet, and couldn'...
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Pygame RESIZABLE display flag not working as expected on display re-initialization
I'm working on a simple script to be used as a personal code skeleton for pygame projects (making this primarily for practice with Python, PyGame, and game design) but I'm running into an issue with ...
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Pygame : having trouble with implementing movement with vectors
I've been struggling a lot to learn how to use vectors in programming. Now I've successfully made my own vector class but I still can't use vectors for movement.
This is my class :
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Create list of objects with a for loop pygame/python
Hi everyone I am trying to make a Mahjong Solitaire game using pygame.
I want to create a list of objects (the tiles of the game) using a for loop, but I can't manage to set a different type (the ...
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Internal representation of checkers board
I am creating a game of checkers using the but am struggling to find a good internal representation for the game. My initial thoughts were to store the game board in a 2d list, with 0=empty, 1=always ...
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My python code has stopped detecting keystrokes
It was working before, then I added the enemy rectangle and it has stopped working.
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How to make a multiplayer game for multiple screen sizes?
I am making a 2d multiplayer game for Android, targeted to run on every device.
How do I calculate the common position of an asset, independent of screen size?
What size map should I assume is a ...
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python open .obj file that doesn't have normal information stored
I want to open an .obj file using retcave. Here is the code I am using:
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Integrating gpt2 into unity
I was wondering if anyone had any pointers in integrating gpt-2 into unity. I've got quite a bit of experience with python, but less with unity. What I'm trying to do is use a pretrained gpt2 model in ...
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How do I port a game made with Scratch, Pygame, or JavaScript to the Switch?
I've been making my own games in many different languages (mainly Scratch, Python 3 with Pygame, and JavaScript), but, so far, none of them have been ported to the Nintendo Switch. How can I do this?
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Entity Component System in Python
Me and a team of junior developers are making a role playing game. We would like to make something similar to https://bunk.town/ I have only made a Tetris clone which doesn't require much knowledge ...
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Unable to restart level in Python Pygame
So, I am making Flappy Bird and when the player dies I have the spacebar assigned to reset the game.
However, it's not working and I truly have no idea why (after like 3 hours of going through ...
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How do I create an event trigger system for a Discord bot?
I am making a card game and I am having issues implementing "effects" and effects that are continuous.
How can I get effects to activate at the right times, before and after an attack does ...
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Minimax algorithm seems stuck in infinite loop, please help!
2 players works fine but I can't debug the minimax algorithm, it just keeps going..
sorry that the code is messy
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Recycling bullets versus spawning them on demand
Until now, I know 2 bullets' algorithms/configurations : (I mean 2 ways of logically creating a bullet class)
Make a bullet class and create only one instance from it that represents the bullet.
The ...
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How to make a number show how much the player will lose
Bit new to python. I'm making a game where you click on a strawberry, then it reappears in a new location, and so on and so forth. But you see, every time the player misclicks, they lose Score equal ...
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Turn-based grid movement - each click of the clock you want to move the player
I am working one the movement for a tactical turn-based pygame.
I'm stumped as to how to get a selected object to move one tile at a time up to it's max movement to the mouse's pos.
Right now this is ...
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How do you rotate a sprite in pygame?
I am making a game in Pygame and I want it so every time the sprite jumps it rotates mid-air and lands on its side. A lot like Geometry Dash jumping if you have ever played that. I have some code but ...
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Top-Down Tank Physics with Pygame
I am trying to make a top-down tank shooter game in Python and pygame, but I can't get the tank movement right. My objective is to make it move forward in the direction it is pointing in which would ...
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Pytmx loads no tiles or textures, it seems
So, I've been trying to load a tmx file through pytmx But when it loads the file, it only loads a black image with the same resolution as the tmx file.
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"contains support" for Dreamcast/Atari/etc, but "not officially supported"?
I found this on the About page on the official Pygame website:
Truly portable. Supports Linux (pygame comes with most main stream linux distributions), Windows (95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 64-bit ...
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How to stop player from slingshotting across my game window
In my pygame dungeon rpg when my player collides with a wall at the top or the bottom of its rect and I move the player in either x-direction, the player gets slingshotted off the screen. Using print ...
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How can i make a sprite appear middle of your cursor? Pygame
I made a sprite (hitmarker) to appear middle of your mouse when you click on a sprite (egg), but the hitmarker sprite appears at the right bottom of your mouse like this:
however, I wanna make it ...
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why doesn't spritecollide method work?
In my code, I wanted to use the spritecollides method but I got the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/lanik2009/Documents/pygame testing.py", line 76, ...
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How to display the counter in pygame.time.set_timer?
in pygame, we use pygame.time.set_timer() to repeatedly create an event. This function takes 2 arguments : the event type and the delay time after which the event ...
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Full screen to windowed screen workaround causing segmentation fault in pygame
I'm having an issue that causes the window bar to appear above the screen when jumping between full-screen and windowed mode. Did some googling on the issue and it turns out it's actually a pygame bug,...
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Pygame bullet firerate not working sometimes
i have made this bullet class but i have a problem with the firerate. Sometimes i'm not able to shoot even when the little delay (700ms) between the two shots has ended. I guess it's due to the ...
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Would creating a player scriptable game using Unreal Engine or Unity violate their license agreement?
I want to create a game in Unity or UE4 which allows the user to write scripts in Python and run them mainly to control the AI. I will have to find a way to enable runtime script execution first. ...
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Image color being changed when pygame blitting to screen
I'm working on my first game, and I decided to add some trees that twinkle to the game. For some reason when the image is blitted to the screen using pygames blit ...
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How to make a z-depth buffer with pygame?
I am making a 3d renderer with python and so far am sorting the triangles which I want to replace with a z-depth buffer. The thing is, I don't know how to make a z-depth buffer in pygame. I still want ...
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How would you have a range of movement within a class in pygame?
I have blitted 4 zombies to the screen in pygame. First, the zombies will wander in a specific region (let us say a 10 x 10 area). And when the player enters any one of the zombie's areas, the zombie ...
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player teleporting into other levels
So I basically want to load another map once the player collides with a object, specifically a "Portal" in my game. Which is really making the player move onto other levels. I don't want to ...
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Efficient sprite animation display methods?
I'm making a game sprite, with animations for transitioning to different states, such as idle, sleeping, etc. I'm wondering what the most efficient way to play the animations is. As of now, I have a ...
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How can I publish a Python game on itch.io as html?
I'm making a game with Python, using Pygame. I want to publish my game on itch.io so that it's playable in the browser.
Is there a way to do this? If so, how?
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Where to store polygons and polygon animation?
I thought about making something with ApeOut graphics long before it came out and its release motivated me to try - I'm having tons of fun but I stumbled upon a pickle.
I can imagine storing polygons ...
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Networking to make a single player RPG into multiplayer
I’ve written a few games in Xcode before and would like to turn one into the simplest possible 2D top-down RPG multiplayer game. Essentially just needing movements around a big tiled map (I love ...
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Sprite walk animation blurring when sprite image moves too quickly
I didn't see any other questions like this that had an answer so I thought I'd ask in hopes this helps someone else too. I have a game I'm in the beginning stages of working on, and I've gotten to the ...
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Player not moving camera to the other side of the screen when hitting the screen edge
I'm working on a game where I want the player to appear on the other side of the screen when they get to the edge of the screen, essentially mimicking the background moving. When the player gets to ...
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Find format of data from Steam API using Python
I have some user data downloaded using the Steam API (I am following the approach described here) and I need to find the format for each entry of the CSV file I generated (available here).
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Domain distortion on a spherical texture (planetary surface)
I am experimenting with procedural techniques to generate planetary terrain. I have close to zero knowledge so I started with something simple, using perlin noise and domain distortion.
My goal is to ...
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How to get object or its index from mouse coordinates? [closed]
Basically, I have a NumPy array of rectangles that store their colour and position.
I want to be able to compare my mouse position and clicked on the rectangle's position and get the index or the ...
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Animating from json file in pygame?
I have got a json file and I am trying to load the single sprites from that file
but I gives this error after a few loops and also the animation is not smooth(gets stuck)
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How can I create a boundary so the sprites don't go off screen?
I'm attempting to create a boundary around the window to stop the sprites of my game from escaping but it doesn't seem to be work, when they hit the area where its supposed to stop them it instead ...
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Using multiple pygame_gui managers
I would like to structure my gui into different panels.
so to help keep my code managable i thought it might be a good idea to have a main panel. with its own manager and then a secondary panel with ...
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The gameloop is stucking the window
I tried to display a player image in a 800x600 window using PyGame but when I try it, the window just gets stuck (immovable with mouse drag, minimize,maximize and close button is stuck and not ...
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Failed to execute script {pygame.exe}
So I've made an game which just has a script named "TrainYourBrain.py". I wanted to make an exe of it but I failed.
It just gives the error Failed to execute script TrainYourBrain
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How to detect when a keyboard arrow key is held down in turtle graphics?
I am very new to Python I started to make a pong game, but can't get it to let me hold down the buttons for the paddle to move. I'm using the builtin turtle module, not Pygame.
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