Breakout in python

A video creating breakout in python. The game includes flexible graphics, sounds, powerups and a cool retro look.

(You also get lots of perks)

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Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:00:37 - Project setup
0:04:56 - Creating the background
0:13:42 - Creating the player(-ish)
0:30:18 - Creating the ball
0:51:14 - Collision theory
1:10:04 - Creating the blocks
1:35:46 - Adding proper graphics
2:21:07 - Adding hearts
2:27:57 - Creating upgrades
3:03:56 - CRT Styling + sounds

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[mixlaproduction]

I'm afraid we're not aware of what gems we have on this channel... Clear Code is a legend!!!

[matrixtoogood]

Probably the best PyGame creator I have come across!

I would love to hear more of your ideas on object-oriented design (maybe SOLID principles, design patterns etc.) while developing games or GUIs. There isn't much good content on object-oriented design in Python (or PyGame).

Maybe some multiplayer implementations over network using sockets would be awesome as well!

[pitermg]

Great tutorial! Very well and thoroughly explained. I find your channel a real gem! By coding with you and listening to explanations I really do feel I'm getting better at understanding game programming. I enjoyed it very much!

[Monotoba]

I've watched and worked through many of your tutorials. I truly enjoy them and find their quality superb. I want to encourage you to continue providing tutorials and project videos for PyGame!

[diegoecp]

It is a fantastic tutorial. I have enjoyed a lot programming this game. The only thing you forgot was to end the game when there is no block left. Great job!

[Ajay.Tiwari]

Best pygame tutorial creator on internet!!

[davecolburn]

Excellent tutorial! Final product made look around for quarters… 😎

[tfwnoyandere]

thank christ on a stick for this channel dude holy

[Bezzegv]

i went to sleep watching a youtuber play kenshi, i woke up to this...

[potatocat]

YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE PROFESSIONAL!!!!
love your content👍👍👍👍

[BeRaikwal]

new project to work upon and have some all nighters. WHY DO U DO THIS I JUST FINISHED UR ZELDA VIDEO AHAHAHHAH UR AMAZING MATE KEEP UPLOADING SOME NICE RPG GAMES TOO

[uprola]

11:27 kids look, equations and algebra ARE useful!

Computer graphics is full of such short equations and formulas, which are best to be solved in the head. Train linear equation solving to automatic!

[Mohossam]

Can you make 2d game thats feels like 3D gamws like the old racing games or doom 1 or way out 1983 something like that

[carlfranz]

My only problem with this (and most of the other Breakout clone tutorials) is that it is deterministic. That is, the "angle of incidence (always) equals the angle of reflection". In this case the first and second ball cannot possibly be bounced by the paddle as the angles involved are larger then the possible paddle movement. Also, there is no way to vary the bounce. It is what it is and paddle movement during contact does not effect it.

Other then that... Gotta love this guys teaching methods. Better then most of the rest. Still... Take PirateMaker for instance. It should have been constructed as a state machine because there are too many bugs in switching states between Editor and Game. Also his 'Delta Time' design needs more thorough. Not in design (very good) but in explanation. You need to spend some time explaining where you are going before you go there. Both theory and execution. I'd love to chat with Christian to get his take on how he designs his games.

OTOH, I've not created any YouTube tutorials so my 'bitching' should be takes with a grain of salt. That said... I've done a LOT of tutorials for various audience levels over my 35 years and have, I hope, learned a thing or two about effective explanation/presentation.

This, apparently is a young mans game and I am no longer young. 🙂 Sigh.

[diegoecp]

Instead of saving the old rect of the ball and the player, you can look at the ball direction. So, instead of looking if the ball in the previous frame was on the left or on the right you can see the direction x or y and deduce where it was. I think it's easier this way.

[ranjeetkahar]

sir' In pygame text animation, video is made in which animation is done on all type of text like text being zoomed and hidden, text moving, text showing in display one by one like story.

[TZ-wgkh]

The code doesn’t work for me it says that bg.png is not there when it is in the folder pls help

[donmader]

Don M

A really good tutorial for learning how to program in Python. I used this tutorial to learn the syntax and the use of different libraries.

Question: I'm NOT sure why this happens with my set-up. The way I handled this exercise I typed the code as a guide while listening, I came across a problem in several of the steps and I was able to figure out to work around. As an example, in the determining the aspect ratio for the background (create_bg) function, I got and exception of a float not allowed in a tuple therefore not allowing the code to execute. It was NOT until I cast the 'scaled_width' & 'scaled_height' to an 'int' was I able to compile the code. This was also true in the 'get_surf' function, the images width & height had to cast to an int until it executed.

Does anyone know why in the tuitorial it allows a tuple to accept a float and in mine it does NOT?

See my example code
Sample 1
def create_bg(self):
bg_original =
scale_factor = WINDOW_HEIGHT / bg_original.get_height()
scaled_width = int(bg_original.get_width() * scale_factor)
scaled_height = int(bg_original.get_height() * scale_factor)



Sample 2
# top side
def get_surf(self, block_type, size):


top_width = int(size[0] - (sides['topleft'].get_width() +
scaled_top_surf = pygame.transform.scale(sides['top'], (top_width, sides['top'].get_height()))
image.blit(scaled_top_surf, (sides['topleft'].get_width(), 0))

[gawan]

Your content is fucking amazing bro, keep it up! :))
Btw, höre ich da einen deutschen Akzent heraus? xD

[davnoa]

1. Okay, but why you need time.time() if you already have self.clock = pygame.time.Clock()?
To set it as dt is as easy as: dt = self.clock.tick (variable in miliseconds). And you could add this to settings...
2. By the way, pygame.display.update() is updating whole surface like display.flip() if you don't specify object that you want to update on the surface.
3. You could've make one set of blolcks graphics in grayscale, and then assign colors needed wia health from COLOR_LEGEND, by multiplying or adding color values by blit() metod with alpha values somwhere near 33%.
4. You could use a spritesheet for little preformance boost by cutting draw calls and serach calls to one each.
(will add more, after going through your video. But for now... Keep it up man!)