Creating a Stardew Valley inspired game in Python

A Stardew Valley style game in Python and Pygame. This includes
farming and foraging, a day and night cycle, weather effects
and a merchant. The game was also made in Tiled so you can
expand it yourself.
You can get my Pygame course here: www.udemy.com/course/learn-py...
If you want to support me check out my Patreon: / clearcode
(You also get lots of perks and all my courses)
Social stuff:
Twitter - / clear_coder
Discord - / discord
Project files:
github.com/clear-code-project...
Links to related pygame videos:
Ultimate introduction to Pygame - • The ultimate introduct...
Delta time in pygame - • Understanding framerat...
Masks in pygame - • Understanding Pygame m...
Collisions - • Collisions between mov...
Tiled - • A guide to level creat...
Cameras - • Cameras in Pygame
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:01:53 - Setup
0:10:19 - Creating the basic player
0:29:49 - Importing the player graphics
0:42:59 - Animating the player
0:53:32 - Tool use
1:09:04 - Switching between tools
1:21:27 - Creating the overlay
1:32:20 - Starting the camera and importing the floor
1:50:50 - Importing all elements and faking more 3D
2:18:52 - Collisions
2:42:29 - Working on the trees
3:06:42 - Particles
3:16:32 - Player inventory
3:21:57 - Restarting the day
3:46:00 - Starting the soil
4:12:29 - Soil patch graphics
4:32:51 - Watering logic
4:43:19 - Rain
5:03:36 - Creating the plants
5:24:56 - Harvesting
5:32:53 - Daytime transition
5:41:04 - The merchant
6:23:46 - Audio (+ some final fixes )

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[@ClearCode]

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[@Noob_-fq7fw]

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[@vadvenurt]

you finished it?

[@JokerKizer]

Wow, I just finished your Zeldalike tutorial and was thinking it would be easy enough to try making this exact concept, you sure work fast. Looking forward to checking this out in detail as well. Thank you for providing these!

[@rrahll]

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[@ClearCode]

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[@pieterbosch87]

Love these game tutorials but how to protect pygames and e.g. sell them? Compiling them to exe or multiplatform. What would be the best distribution posibilities? Perhaps a nice idea for a video:)

[@Meletion1]

Wow not many replies

[@HoRRoRlets]

Finished this tutorial today. Just want to say thank you for a great video. Really learnt a lot of really neat tricks, and I think you have cleared up some of my confusion regarding object interactivity and importing. Great video...

[@BigBraGad]

Can't wait to start this. The other tutorials have given me confidence just to start and this just looks so much more expansive!

[@softwaredave2854]

Currently working through your paid course and now I'm excited to finish that to then start on this tutorial. Thanks for the amazing content.

[@pauljaroslawski3511]

Just going to toss this into my watch later list for a rainy weekend! Looks great and can't wait to watch.

[@Chris-rb8ox]

Thanks so much for this tutorial! I always thought making a game like this would be really difficult, but you've shown me how achievable it is.

[@Pronk-ui8rz]

Thank you so much for all the time and effort you must have put in making and preparing this video!! It was not only helpful in getting to understand pygame, but also more generally how to organize the code with classes. Many thanks, job very well done! :-)

[@ClearCode]

Thank you so much and glad it helped :)

[@rragy1848]

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[@johnb6714]

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[@ClearCode]

Thank you so much! :)

[@pedrenriquegg]

Can we like the video 3 thousand times in a row? Dude, I work with written documentation, and I know the amount of fucking work that goes into explaining every single little detail. I've done a couple of explanatory videos before. Nothing comes close to the level of detail and the dedication that you put into your videos. They're very helpful! Thank you very much for putting up this kind of content! It's a blessing for people learning Python and game development in general!

[@cashtache]

Dude seriously, THANK YOU. The fact that you put in all this work to teach us this stuff is amazing. Just goes to show how much you care. I'll support anything you make!

[@brandonjacksoon]

Amazing! A lot of effort you put into this tutorial Thanks mate!

[@rrahll]

AWESOME! Top quality content! Thank you!

[@ClearCode]

If you enjoy this video check out my course: www.udemy.com/course/learn-python-by-making-games/?referralCode=A80FECE8C76096E01111 and my Patreon: patreon.com/clearcode

[@help6732]

can u upload dis game on playstore? (android)

[@vPee-Ton]

can you post the raw code so I can just copy and paste it into python so i dont waste time please:D

[@rudyfaile]

These videos are awesome. Please never stop.

[@fidelrivera2887]

Actually did it... So many obstacles overcome but I actually got it more or less done. Thank you. I learned so much from this project.

[@sonen4]

This is a great video, very clear and easy to follow along. Thank you so much.

[@ethanmilne517]

This is awesome!! Your videos inspired me to further my education. For that you have earnt my money sadly I don't have any yet but when I do I wont forget you ClearCode! Thanks again

[@YehorDementiev]

it is really nice, I really can't understand how people can create so nice games and so nice videos! You are the best

[@ivmmos]

doing zelda under your close supervision atm, and then suddenly a new video with even more challenges to overtake! THANK YOU!

[@gabrieloliveira7849]

Your course in Udemy is fantastic, I bump into in your channel and after saw your tutorials I just needed to got the course, congratulations.

[@breach_meidith]

for those who run into an issue with pygame and mp3 files: from my short dive into it, apparently mp3 is really finnicky on pygame, and some combinations of app versions and OS lead to pygame unable to load mp3s; this was true for my Windows 10 and latest versions of all software. the solution is either skip the mp3s or use/convert to the recommended ogg or wav format (wav didn't cause me no issues).

[@reapercreeper6097]

I love all these pygame tutorials of yours

[@kiznaiverssx814]

It's like a mix of Stardew Valley and Littlewood. Great job!

[@kaizen9451]

Well… isn’t this just a delight.

[@allanpinheiro6]

Chris, thanks for the tutorial, my game is running just fine! A lot of the concepts in this tutorial I will use when creating my own projects. God bless you!

[@GCKteamKrispy]

Amazing! These videos are really helpful for learning python

[@natyacodes]

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[@artyommart]

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[@damus6665]

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[@nikitashkaruba610]

Now this is beautiful. Thank you!

[@TheJAM_Sr]

I really enjoy your content for the last year or so that I've been learning python! I did buy your Udemy course too, can't wait to dig into that.

[@albertsun8725]

I agree

[@sylvanfranklin6904]

Hey clear code! You were a huge help back when I was using pygame and your content quality is amazing. Wondering if you would ever make content about game dev in rust with a framework like bevy

[@user-ny6mp1ji3k]

Totally awesome guide, thanks for your work!

[@tashadurrahman]

Wow! Stardew valley is one of my favourite games of all time... Just yesterday I was wondering if I'll be making a clone of it in pygame... And here you are with a video today. Thank you for this!!

[@kenna_king100]

Me tooo!!

[@VickylanceMedia]

Although pygame is not suited for a game as large as stardew valley. If you are serious prefer more lightweight and performant engine

[@charg1nmalaz0r51]

@@VickylanceMedia i disagree, a game like stardew valley isnt that demanding on resources. You can quite happily make most 2d games in pygame without issue. you would have to be doing an awful lot for it to make any sort of performance issue that requires a better language or engine to get the most out of things

[@TheDarkSide11891]

Absolutely amazing content!

[@Raven-wr4we]

Thank you so much!! Going to start right after I finish the Zelda tutorial :D

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The quality of your videos is amazing.

[@AlexTitarenko87]

Great tutorial! Finished it in 3 days. Excellent

[@muralidharan.m645]

I don't even see this kind of master tutorial 🤩 well done brother

[@andrewmaksimovich2432]

This channel is a gold mine for python tutorials, amazing!

[@bigmanryu_8940]

you are honestly the best! thank you for your work❤

[@nainvideo963]

Thanks you for this great video ! I'm at 32:30 and just in case there's too much animations you can use os module to check for any folder name to create the keys for the assets dictionnary. By using dictionnary comprehension you can also fill it and if you add or remove animations the process work by itself ! 😊

[@amber82872]

No way!! I was just thinking about this a few weeks ago, I really wanted to make something like this but had no clue how to start. I absolutely love you. Immediately liked the video

[@sevenlewdz]

Really appreciate the fact that you're making all this for FREE. BTW, your paid Udemy course is very good for the price! Keep up the good work, you're a great YTber!

[@tonyf1410]

The youtube algorithm threw this at me randomly... 3 hours in and loving it! Thanks for all the effort!

[@vinnyhorgan7186]

Amazing work!!

[@Finding_Fortune]

Awesome tutorial dude!

[@shi-rongliu149]

Amazing! This video is very helpful

[@savagecatdev]

I like that you make really long videos so i don't have to switch between different videos every 10 minutes lol

[@redawgts]

Great tutorial. Very helpful.

[@neomage2021]

I've been a software engineer and mainly python developer for over 15 years now, and programming about 25+ years. Fun to watch your videos and your presentation style. I will definitely pass these along

[@gooser1]

hiii can you help me please, im stuck at animating my character, my “position center” seems to be off to the right bottom and 0,0 is not in the corner even. idk whats wrong

[@jjcruz750]

@@gooser1 try leet code or something similar. They might be able to help

[@UnderArea51]

OMG! You are my hero!!!! LOVE THIS!

[@arcticheroh]

Just found a gem of a KZbinr 💎 Just liked & subbed.

[@palmtrees9474]

Unbelievable man! God bless you!

[@strawberry-ec9qm]

thank u so much bro i hope u can make more pygame next time!

[@thedirecter101]

It 100% works now 🎉 was really fun making this. Definitely considering getting the premium assets to really bring this game to have more life

[@Sam2Reel]

This is such a nice game!!

[@DarKnight-me3mx]

At 46m09s, for the mechanism to make the frames repeat, instead of using an "if statement" you could use a module operator (%). It is faster (since it wouldn't need to do comparisons all the time) and cleaner (onli one small line of code) Short Example: frame = (frame+dt*4)%len_anim

[@kenhaley4]

I noticed this as well.

[@rexoxpp]

hey clear code you should only make the amazing game on this channel you are awesome

[@fphenix]

Loving it so far! BTW 1:15:15 was such a perfect place to use a modulo (%) : self.tool_index = (self.tool_index + 1) % len(self.tools)

[@ClearCode]

true! :D

[@musicdudejoe263]

Was just about to comment this haha.

[@Kbu73]

You can do similarly for the frame_index: self.frame_index = (self.frame_index + 4 * dt) % len(self.animations[self.status])

[@lost_mowglii]

Thanks a lot for this Contents .. Its really helping me a ton.

[@pedroarcila4431]

Thank you so much for sharing your valuable knowledge

[@y4h2]

Although I am using other engines to create games, this pygame tutorial helps me to deeply understand the basic of 2d game development. Amazing tutorails, thanks so much.

[@ame367]

Hey I’ve seen this pack on itch! Fun to see someone using it in the wild

[@AlexTitarenko87]

Amazing series

[@dailydoseofanime4503]

Finally I dig diamond from KZbin search , Thank you so much sir🙏🏼.

[@T15A20]

Hey! I just finished the whole thing and thought I'd give some feed back as thanks, for the great Tutorial! First of all, really great Tutorial and it is clear how much effort it must have been! This tutorial was uplaoded in the right moment for me, because I was looking to refresh my python skills and really didn't just wanna go over the basics or work with a fictional Datascience optimization Example. I was recomended this by chance by the youtube algorithm and saw how long it is and first thought, nah that's insane. A couple days later however I thought this would be the right thing, since I've never done anything like this and it looked like a fun project where I could learn a lot and maybe expaned this whole thing with more tutorials later on. Since I didn't watch any of your previouse videos or worked with Pygame I expected this to be though, and sometimes it got though to understand the full logic. However I thought you explained everything very well. I did start getting more and more impatient/unconentraited after the first couple of hours and it did also feel like you started getting slightly impatient as well after like the 3h mark and especially at the end. I did like that you left the mistakes in, where you checked for why the code was not running. It was just minor things like, cuts in the editing of the video, where the code suddenly would change mid writing or you repeating a sentence. Also when you did your fixes in the end I was a bit confused since your first fix, wasn't necessary in my code, so I assume you did fix it before putting the video together and I didn't have the line to delete. Also stuff like, the s21 Files for Daytime were already changed to the state of the next chapter, which confused for a moment when I tried to find a mistake I did. One last thing was the way to loud background music that you added into the game, I had to take down the Video volume to 20% everytime that played, I feel like something went wrong there with the audio editing in the video. Anyway, this is really just nitpicking, especially on a 6h+ Video. All in all I really loved the Tutorial, the chapters, the explanaitons and all the assets you put in one package so people could work alongside. Everytime I had an issue because I forgot a () somewhere or anything similar I downloaded the Chapter files and went line for line, which really helped. I really would love a part 2 where we learn more about implementing a proper Menu and maybe controler support or just in general build out the programm on this foundation. I'll definetly will look more into PyGame, Tiled and other things to expaned on this and try to make it my own little game project on which I work on over time. First thing I'll fix is the way to fast night timer which also keeps running when your in the menu with the merchant. That one bugged me a lot while testing. I thought I'll give a full feedback since really appreciated the work you put in, hope this is not seen as just me complaining!

[@dr_frankenmiller2607]

Can you help me to find the assets for this build please? A URL or link to your GitHub where I can find the sprite sheets and WAV files please? I want build this game from scratch the GitHub repo he left up there only has text files

[@ch0piiiprogrammieren677]

I Love this type of videos! But I have a good idea for the next… can you try to make a game like this BUT with online multiplayer? It would be amazing but keep the work up I like it!

[@channelbarrel]

For those who are struggling with walk() function: you probably missed slash or smth. pathlib library is more comfortable to debug so you may want to discover it

[@xiaomanwang1984]

I love the tutorials and they really help. Like a lot. Could you please make a tutorial teaching us how to code a pinball game in pygame?

[@jahin5745]

you have earned yourself a subscriber

[@lindenhamer4766]

Just completed the tutorial - took me about 16 hours total. Wow! Can't believe something like this is free. Learnt a lot and was really fun to learn something new and see/play the final finished game. Would love to see videos on the following types of games uisng pygame: - card game: yu-gi-oh style - pokemon style game - in particular aspects of changing maps, saving files and the turn based battle styles. - A game which utilies random map generation to build worlds for a top down game - A game which has dynamic world - I guess similar to this tutorial but with animals having behaviours that can interact with one another without player input. I will be going through your Zelda tutorials and Mario Maker ones too. Keep up the good work. Thanks !

[@gooser1]

hi what IDE did you use? im using pycharm and i dont know why it keeps on saying “video not initialized” and “Game” has no attribute “clock”” even i typed the same thing as Clear Code does. ive been having the same problem from my first code but i dont know why this errors keeps on popping up for me. 3:31 and a lot of errors happening already :((

[@gooser1]

i finished the pygame introduction video by him but idk why im having this kind of problem :((( i would be happy to have help since im presenting this as my final project

[@lindenhamer4766]

Hi, I used VS code. I haven’t used APY charm before. I’m terms of where you are getting stuck. Don’t worry. I also encountered MANY bugs that I had to overcome - I will say 99% were small typos and other bugs. Potentially start again (as you’re not far into it) and try to write everything from scratch. OR re-download the starting folder and then remove anything which got added before folder was pushed to the repo.

[@gooser1]

@@lindenhamer4766 hello, thank you for replying. im starting all over again :)) still stuck though which sucks hahaha

[@gooser1]

oop! update! got it now! :))

[@git_27]

Thank you so much!

[@DGHere12]

Clear Code your videos are awesome, they helped me so much, my request, if you would like to, then please create a video on how to solve problems, implement them in code. Thank You!

[@hibian6168]

Really helpful.

[@user-mt7zc5qw2d]

You re just amazing!

[@mozerinvestimentos1564]

Dude, my head exploded with the sprite updates

[@kenhaley4]

At 1:45:12 I used the following shorter and faster code to display the sprites. The idea is to sort the sprites by layer, then display. This eliminates the outer for loop as well as the need to use LAYERS dictionary. for sprite in sorted(self.sprites(), key=lambda x: x.z): self.display_surface.blit(sprite.image, sprite.rect) Later in the video at 2:17:05, the video shows how to add the sprite's y-position to further control the display order of sprites on the same layer, whidh would seem to require the original nested for loop after all. However, I incorporated the change into the above for loop as follows, keeping it a single loop. (Note that this includes the offset logic for the camera motion which the video added in the meantime): for sprite in sorted(self.sprites(), key=lambda sprite: sprite.z * 10000 + sprite.rect.centery): offset_rect = sprite.rect.copy() offset_rect.center -= self.offset self.display_surface.blit(sprite.image, offset_rect) The idea here is to create an integer key formatted as zzyyyy where zz is the layer number (the z attribute of the sprite), and yyyy is the y-position of the sprite. Now the sprites are sorted by z (the layer) and then by their y-location, drawing sprites in order from top to bottom, resulting in lower sprites appearing in front of higher sprites on the same layer. By the way, ditto to all the other compliments that others have made for this excellent video lesson!!

[@pianoplayer1262]

In Python, you can gracefully sort by multiple things using tuples! sorted(sprites, key=lambda sprite: (sprite.z, sprite.y)) This sorts first by earlier items in the tuple, then by later items. No need to assume y < 1000, or do any math. Hope this helps

[@kenhaley4]

@@pianoplayer1262 Right. Why didn't I think of that. Thanks.

[@charg1nmalaz0r51]

@@pianoplayer1262 Do you have any idea how to make the sprites sort properly. Currently his rabit still appears infront of a flower for example when hes halfway up the stem instead of switching behind it when his feet pass the base of the stem. Its really offputting and i tried to sort based on midbottom of the rect but that had no effect

[@HaLyGjQdTpReMnKmW2X]

I have the dumb, your GitHub has the right files. Thank you.

[@pressaktc]

He make 6 hours gamedev tutorial, amazing

[@sidds09]

awesome. find some time to teach us backend development with python too. you are so good.

[@cauemendes9703]

You're a good teacher, tnx a loot!!! 👏

[@moogleking]

Great tutorial better than the coding I learnt at university

[@gordonmctague1723]

Thanks!!

[@Akosiyawin]

A Tutorial that leads to a bunch of tutorials. Really cool

[@nicuukk1779]

You honestly deserve so much more recognition

[@benjasaurusrex38]

Your videos are not good at all their great! Ive learned so much from your videos, Thank you!

[@djhack3d981]

awesome!

[@Zac8668]

you are amazing dude like wth

[@toysandgames7015]

Excellent

[@NoaTugy]

I wanna make it but in Unity or Godot The art is too cute to resist💖💖💖 Hopefully the video will help from a logical point of view and I'll find out about syntax later 😊😊😄

[@cadowyn735]

There's a good course on udemy about making Stardew Valley clone in unity.

[@BigIndianBindi-jy1cz]

great job

[@comicbooksaga667]

Man you're the best

[@radspazman22]

Thank you so much for your tutorials!