PyGame Level Editor Using Tilemaps in Python - Tutorial

In this (very long) video, I explain the code for my updated level editor. This allows you to create and export levels to be used in your games. The tutorial covers tile maps, a parallax scrolling background, buttons as well as saving and loading using CSV and pickle modules.

All the code and assets are on github:

Credits for assets:

Timestamps:
0:00 Demo
6:10 Background
11:10 Scrolling Background
22:35 Setup Grid
28:23 Tile Buttons
43:45 Tile map explanation
53:40 Placing tiles on the screen
1:12:17 Saving and Loading data

[tgk]

Hey Russ I’m 13 trying to create apps early and your teaching is wonderful....your teaching me so much about coding and what you do for people is so kind and wonderful keep u the awesome work❤️❤️❤️

[johnandlisalinderman]

you put a lot of time in this and I am grateful even when you C&P code you still explain you are defiantly a good teacher my friend

[Pixelaze]

Thank you so much for sharing! I've been trying to get into game development for the longest time. Seeing your videos gave me that final push.

[evagok]

Thanks a lot! I have completed this video too and I learn a lot again. You are really good at teaching. I am looking forward to finish the other tutorials

[khargos]

I was getting a little lost around 1-hour in. Then, you said it might make more sense if you ran the code, and the program hit an error immediately, so I got skeptical, but then your combination of print statements and examples really cleared the confusion. It was the part where you were correlating the mouse position to the tile grid, by the way.

[Narriz]

Love the detail and structure in your explanations. Good job.

[LimitzKL]

a custom level editor gui, insane man! keep it up

[vincentkd]

Thanks a lot! I adapted this level editor to suit my needs and use it now, it's perfect.

[anypuppet]

I love your videos! You are a great teacher. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

[notnaix]

just completed ur pygame scrolling shooter game tutorial and im now here to learn how to make my own levels. man ur lessons are really great and is helping a lot of people most especially first timers like me. thanks russ!!!

[nimrodvecsei]

Thank you Coding Whit Russ, your videos are a lot of help to me so.. Thank you!

[gamesbyar]

Amazingly easy to follow 👏
Thank you!

[orangesidny]

Luv your videos i watched ALL of it about 20 times

[aronaza]

This will be really useful! Thank you so much, love all your tutorials

[theimmaturegoat]

Thank you! I turned this into a pixel art editor!

[chrischou]

Best game dev Tutorial, so inspiration.

[JohnnyTherd_]

I have a question, every time I use button.Button(), it gives me this error AttributeError: module 'button' has no attribute 'Button', does somebody know how to fix this?

[xxxxxx-rtrq]

I learnt a lot from this tutorial :) I will use your tips and tricks with my future programs. Thank you very much for this tutorial!

[mohamedhasifkh]

proud moment when you realize his mistakes before he realizes " I am beginning to understand"

[karl-heinzskywalker]

I usually don't give likes but I give them to every video of this channel