Beginning Game
Development with
Python and Pygame
From Novice to Professional
■■■
Will McGugan
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Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame: From Novice to Professional
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Contents at a Glance
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii
Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
■CHAPTER 1 Introducing Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
■CHAPTER 2 Exploring Python. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
■CHAPTER 3 Introducing Pygame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
■CHAPTER 4 Creating Visuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
■CHAPTER 5 Making Things Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
■CHAPTER 6 Accepting User Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
■CHAPTER 7 Take Me to Your Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
■CHAPTER 8 Moving into the Third Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
■CHAPTER 9 Exploring the Third Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
■CHAPTER 10 Making Things Go Boom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
■CHAPTER 11 Lights, Camera, Action! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
■CHAPTER 12 Setting the Scene with OpenGL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
■APPENDIX A Game Object Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
■APPENDIX B Packaging Your Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
■INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
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