For more in depth reference, check out the Tutorials section below, check out a video tutorial (I'm a fan of this one), or reference the API documentation by module.

General Tutorials ¶ PyGame object oriented tutorials by przemo_li Discover Python & Pattern - Create a game with Pygame and Design Patterns A complete Pygame Tutorial - Game Creation

All the code in this tutorial works toward implementing TomPong, a game I've written. By the end of the tutorial, you should not only have a firmer grasp of pygame, but you should also understand how …

It's that easy. You just need to call it once per surface, when you load an image off the disk. You'll be pleased with the results; I see about a 6x increase in blitting speed by calling convert(). The only …

General Tutorials ¶ PyGame object oriented tutorials by przemo_li Discover Python & Pattern - Create a game with Pygame and Design Patterns A complete Pygame Tutorial - Game Creation

4. Game object classes ¶ Once you've loaded your modules, and written your resource handling functions, you'll want to get on to writing some game objects. The way this is done is fairly simple, …

This simple example is derived from the line-by-line tutorial that comes with pygame. It is based on a 'popular' web banner. Note there are comments here, but for the full explanation, follow along in the …

2.5. Ta-da! ¶ And that's it - your most basic Pygame game! All games will take a form similar to this, but with lots more code for the actual game functions themselves, which are more to do your with …

Python Pygame Introduction ¶ Author Pete Shinners Contact pete @ shinners. org This article is an introduction to the pygame library for Python programmers. The original version appeared in the …

This is an excellent tutorial for people getting their first look at the pygame code. Once pygame is fully installed, you can find and run the chimp demo for yourself in the examples directory.