The ultimate introduction to Pygame

In this tutorial you will learn to create a runner game in Python with Pygame. The game itself isn't the goal of the video. Instead, I will use the game to go through every crucial aspect of Pygame that you need to know to get started. By the end of the video, you should know all the basics to start basically any 2D game, starting from Pong and ending with the first generation of Doom and Wolfenstein

Timestamps
0:00:00 intro
0:01:06 How games work
0:05:06 What Pygame does
0:08:08 Creating a blank window (+ clock)
0:22:07 Displaying images (with surfaces)
0:42:22 Basic animations
0:51:28 Rectangles
1:03:47 Collisions with rectangles (+using the mouse)
1:15:38 Drawing with rectangles (+colors)
1:29:35 The player character 1: Keyboard input
1:35:58 The player character 2: Jumping & Gravity
1:44:23 The player character 3: Creating a floor
1:48:17 Creating different game states
1:56:03 Displaying the score (+measuring time)
2:06:15 Transforming surfaces
2:23:50 Better enemy spawn logic (with timers)
2:49:33 Animating the player, the snail and the fly
3:09:01 Using the sprite class (OOP in Pygame)
3:42:57 Adding music

[ClearCode]

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[alexc]

Love that you release an amazing, 4 hour tutorial like this and it just ends abruptly with, 'so I hope that was helpful' 😆

[MachineVersatile]

Seriously you do great job because:
+ explaining logical parts on seperate screen and then go into implententing
+ you make a chance to code by yourself
+ you just use simple drawing on screen to make code and logical parts more understandable
+ video is split on some smaller parts
+ tempo is accurate

[melloirl]

Never before have i experienced such a fun and pleasuring learning experience on any kind of video tutorial ever. I can only thank you for you effort, this is now to me the definition of quality content.

[somethingwrong]

I can't believe that you actually uploaded this free for everyone. This is one of the greatest tutorials I've ever seen. Thank you 💜

[Jack_______oh]

I'm halfway through and I really appreciate your teaching style. You move quickly but explain everything and why you're doing it. I'm trying to make a top down RPG game so I find it helpful to learn from a tutorial that's doing something different so i have to actually think about the concepts.

[gabymaymo]

46 minutes, I am coding along the video. This is already my new favourite channel of youtube man !
The clarity of speech. The time given for self exercises. This channel is too much !! You are the boss

[dennisjeske]

I just turned 60, I've been a technologist my entire adult life and have taught many "programming" courses (proprietary languages) for several fortune 100 companies but I'm relatively new to Python. I have to admit my first thought was, this person has a lot of nerve putting out an almost 4 hour video on the subject. I have to admit, when you're good, you're good and you are really good. I did the entire 3:47:57 over the course of 3 days and I got lost one time, _init_ instead of double underscores __init__. That's it. That was the one thing I screwed up, otherwise I learned a ton of new stuff and I'm, really pleased with how it all worked out. In my experience, it's pretty rare in these type of videos for the finished product to look like the author intended but you nailed it. Can't wait to learn more from you. Thanks! All the best, Dennis.

[Ouvii]

Hahaha, how is it so hard to find programming education like this: the teacher actually spends time explaining concepts instead of explaining lines of code with fruits, colors, and animals while glossing over important material.

You are a godsend.

[grandparick]

Your videos literally seems like magic. It's amazing how you go step by step on each process and also give us exercises to try on our own. I hope you keep making more videos and your channel grows exponentially.

[ayanhaider]

Never have I even paid this much attention to an online video tutorial. thanks for making it easy to understand. keep up the good work!

[thenamesloca]

I started at a more difficult tutorial of yours that I was loving but could not get past an issue I was running into. Starting back from the beginning and solidifying the basics with this video helps so much. From all the videos of yours I've followed I have always loved how clearly you explain these concepts. You make it easy to understand! Thank you for all your videos! I can tell I'm learning especially when there is an urge to clean up the code while working through it, when at one point I didn't even know that was a thing!

[OrangeDied]

This is one of the best tutorials I've watched. He explains everything and makes it really easy to visualize how it works, and different ways to use it. This is one of the few long tutorials I've followed to the end, and I enjoyed every second of it. 10/10, would recommend.

[mixlaproduction]

The quality of your videos is out of this world CC! Relaxing, valuable and the way you explain things is top notch.
I'd like to see a short 2D dungeon-like RPG level game idea with a simple scene changing - that would be a challenge :D
P.S. I miss your background tutorial music you used in flappy bird ^^

[Anastasia-jntv]

I just finished coding along this project, it took me about a week, and I'm very proud of myself and how the game turned out! Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial! Will be tackling next ones soon!💯

[dominiquetheodore]

Thank you for this tutorial. It's the first time I've watched a 4 hour tutorial back to back, and every minute was packed with value. Great job!

[therealdyer]

This is absolutely fantastic. So well explained. Slowly but interestingly dealt with and so I feel like I'm actually learning fundamentals and can come back to this on my own at a later date and actually create my own stuff!

I'm so happy that this has so many (well deserved) likes and views.

Thank you.

[jinwankim]

Dude I just started looking to learn how to make games with pygame and I am so thankful that you uploaded this at such a perfect timing

[generalpo]

I’m learning how to code in Python at school and this video has been very helpful for my final project, I can’t enumerate how thankful I am for Clear Code and his tutorials, they’re amazing

[YeskoGD]

This is honestly one of the best tutorials I've ever watched. You get little exercises every now and then (keeping you from falling asleep) that aren't too easy, but still easy enough to make you feel like you're smart. The video is entertaining but you also learn a lot, and it's very easy to follow. This was the first tutorial that was fun for me to follow along