Welcome to Pygame Zero

Pygame Zero is for creating games without boilerplate.

It is intended for use in education, so that teachers can teach basic programming without needing to explain the Pygame API or write an event loop.

Courses

• Introduction to Pygame Zero
  • Creating a window
  • Drawing a background
  • Draw a sprite
  • Moving the alien
  • Handling clicks
  • Sounds and images
  • Clock
  • Summary
• Migrating from Scratch
  • The stage
  • Pipe movement
  • The Bird
  • Summary

Reference

• Event Hooks
  • Game Loop Hooks
  • Event Handling Hooks
    • Buttons and Keys
• Built-in Objects
  • Screen
  • Rect
  • Resource Loading
    • Images
    • Image Surfaces
    • Sounds
  • Music
  • Clock
  • Actors
    • Positioning Actors
    • Anchor point
    • Rotation
    • Distance and angle to
    • Transparency
  • The Keyboard
  • Animations
  • Tone Generator
  • Data Storage

User Guide

• Installing Pygame Zero
  • On desktop systems
  • On Raspberry Pi
  • For flake8/pyflakes
• Running Pygame Zero in IDLE and other IDEs
  • Example
• Examples
  • List of example games
• Tutorials and Resources
  • Books
  • Online Tutorials
  • Magazines
  • Video Tutorials
  • Hardware
• Other libraries like Pygame Zero
  • Network Zero
  • GUI Zero
  • GPIO Zero
  • Adventurelib
  • Blue Dot
• Changelog
  • 1.3 - unreleased
  • 1.2 - 2018-02-24
  • 1.1 - 2015-08-03
  • 1.0.2 - 2015-06-04
  • 1.0.1 - 2015-05-31
  • 1.0 - 2015-05-29
  • 1.0beta1 - 2015-05-19

Stickers by

Sticker Mule have graciously offered to provide Pygame Zero laptop stickers for learners.

• Laptop Stickers
  • For learners
  • For educators/meet-ups
  • For developers

Improving Pygame Zero

• Roadmap
  • Translations
  • Gamepad Support
  • Surface juggling
  • Storage
• Principles of Pygame Zero
  • Make it accessible
  • Be conservative
  • Just Work
  • Minimise runtime cost
  • Error clearly
  • Document well
  • Minimise breaking changes
• Contributing to Pygame Zero
  • Reporting an bug or request
  • How to do a pull request
  • Development installation
  • How to run tests
  • Helping to translate the documentation