MicroNugget: How to Set Up Python and Pygame

In this video, Tim Warner covers how to set up Python and Pygame development environments in Microsoft Windows. Python is a versatile, high-level programming language, and Pygame is a Python interface to the C Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library. These are great for video game development, and Tim will show you how to set them up quickly and easily.

If you’re interested in video game development, you need to be familiar with Python and Pygame.

Python is a high-level programming language that can be used for virtually any application under the sun. Pygame is just a Python interface that gives you access to the C language Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library.

The benefit you’ll gain by leveraging Pygame is experiencing very efficient, low-level access to the computer components that are used constantly in video game development, such as your video and audio cards.

Tim will walk you through how to set these up and then use them to make video game design and development as easy as possible.

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[BoneCrushGaming]

This guy really helped me with trying to make it so I could install pygame and beable to code it in pycharm! Thanks so much man! Keep doing what you are doing

[omni]

Excellent 'getting started' video! It'd be a huge help to put the links you mentioned in the video description :)

[ChuzpahGoodfellow]

Nice, I did not know these libraries existed, can you make an OS X video? Thanks!

[sinatra]

The bit nugget page cannot be found?? Help!!!!

[BoneCrushGaming]

Nevermind I cant even get pycharm to init pygame because of no reason what so ever