Python Space Invaders Game Tutorial with Pygame - Beginner Tutorial (OOP)

In this gamedev tutorial, I'll teach you how to create your own Space Invaders game using Python and Pygame. This is a great tutorial for beginners, and you'll learn some important game development concepts along the way.

Previous Tutorials (Watch in the following order)

00:00 Intro to Space Invaders tutorial
02:07 Install pygame-ce
04:57 Setup the Game Loop
15:07 Creating the Spaceship
31:07 Create the Lasers
46:59 Create the Obstacles
1:05:39 Create the Aliens
1:23:19 Create the Mystery Ship
1:30:39 Check for Collisions
1:39:29 Game Over
1:59:46 Add Scoring
2:05:15 Add High-Score
2:10:11 Add Sounds

[programmingwithnick]

I hope you took away lots from this video. Let me know below!
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[anthonydrakefordshadow]

Great lesson, you are a very gifted instructor!

[bLedq]

Its funny how overexcited youre are but also very helpful you explain everything from ground up. Good stuff!

[rutsoluo]

Amazing video, being able to program a game like this is a childhood dream come true to me

[Tims_Projects]

Great work Nick, brings back memories when the game came out on an arcade machine in the local pub.

[Flave]

Thank you bro! Very good tutorial!
I used this to make a school project!

[paulthomas]

Fantastic coding exercise - I learnt lots of new tricks. Such a great game too ! Thanks.

[marcoantonioramirezsolis]

Thanks for your tutorials, Nick. You rock and with your teaching method, I have retaken my career in game development. You rock :D

[sebascongo]

This is amazing tutorial, congratulations bro 👌👌

[minhbaby]

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[StarFury]

Welcome back Nick! Will there be a C++ version of this?

[foofoo]

Hi Nick, thanks again for another wonderful tutorial :)
I think you forgot to add in the offset for the laser sprites and the right-side spawn of the mystery space ship seems to be off.

[gianlucagiuman]

Great !! really well explained (oop+flow) to follow
I'm using your example to update a breakout revision !!
Have you another tutorial with spritesheet on a simple platform game ?

Thanx for your time :)

[sonicdasher]

How can I make this go on forever until I loose all 3 lives?

[kennethjones]

loved it thanks--but did have a problem --with the screen size not fitting my laptop and if I want to increase levels and if it is in there--how do I start the next level after clearing the first one. making the next level harder than the last. free ship would be nice after clearing a level or after reaching a certain score.

[goodlookinouthomie]

At 40:44 it would be nice if you explained _why_ we can now delete half of the code we've written in the last half hour. Because I have no idea 🙄

[happygofishing]

Is pygame more featureful than rsylib python bindings