Examples

Pygame Zero has a collection of examples which you can use to learn by reading or modifying the code of the game. You can also play with them! These examples aren’t provided with a normal installation of Pygame Zero but they’re available in the source code repository. To download them, follow the following steps:

• Download the source code of Pygame Zero on the GitHub repository by clicking in the big green button and choosing Download ZIP
• Copy the examples folder whatever you want.
• Delete the ZIP and the source code if you want to save space on your disk.

Now you can play with them as another game that you might created. For example, to run the pong game, you should run:

pgzrun examples/pong/pong.py

Reading & editing the source code is a great way to learn to code, so start hacking the code!

List of example games

Asteroids

To play, run:

pgzrun examples/asteroids/main.py

Basic

This a collection of simple examples that you can use to learn who to use key parts of Pygame Zero. Some of them are examples explained in the documentation.

Flappybird

To play, run:

pgzrun examples/flappybird/flappybird.py

Lander

To play, run:

pgzrun examples/lander/lander.py

Memory

To play, run:

pgzrun examples/memory/memory.py

Mines

To play, run:

pgzrun examples/mines/mines.py

Pong

To play, run:

pgzrun examples/pong/pong.py

Snake

To play, run:

pgzrun examples/snake/snake.py

Tetra puzzle

To play, run:

pgzrun examples/tetra_puzzle/main.py

Tron

To play, run:

pgzrun examples/tron/tron.py