Creating Space Invaders in Pygame/Python

A tutorial on how to create Space invaders in python with Pygame. This is a more advanced tutorial so I assume that you already know the basics of Pygame.

If you want to code along, you can find all the files and the code here:

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:00:46 - Basic setup
0:04:22 - Creating the player
0:19:21 - Creating the laser for the player
0:27:48 - Creating the obstacles
0:48:43 - Creating the aliens
1:20:27 - Collisions
1:27:48 - Adding the health system
1:34:19 - Adding the score system
1:42:50 - Adding the CRT styling
1:48:55 - Adding the music and sounds
1:52:03 - Adding the victory screen

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[Seio]

Great guide, as always.

I changed a small thing that bugged me about the live-system.

First, I created a new Function for self.live_x_start_pos:
def update_lives(self):
self.live_x_start_pos = screen_width - (self.live_surf.get_size()[0] * (self.lives - 1) + (10 * self.lives))


For this function, I changed the 2 for (self.lives - 1) and the 20 for (10 * self.lives). Now I called this function in the place of the original line as well as in the player collision, right after reducing the lives per one. Reason being that 1st: now the positioning looks way better with more then two Extra-lives and 2nd: if you lose a live, you'll now lose the left-most icon instead of the right-most icon.

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[ShaizeOn]

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