Learning pygame by creating Snake [python tutorial]

A tutorial to teach you the fundamentals of pygame by creating the classic snake game. It is designed for absolute beginners, so you don't need to know any pygame; but you would need knowledge of basic python. But besides that, the project should be useful to understand a slightly more complex project, how to use python classes and how to create a basic game in general.
Hope you enjoy :)
The project file is available here: github.com/clear-code-projects/Snake
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:00:40 - How games work
0:02:52 - A basic intro to pygame
0:12:26 - Drawing in pygame
0:29:25 - The logic of snake
0:30:29 - Setting up the board
0:43:42 - Creating the snake
0:49:00 - Moving the snake
0:57:19 - Make sneck munch!
1:06:45 - Game over states
1:16:17 - Creating the fruit graphic
1:18:27 - Creating the snake graphics
1:38:45 - Grass pattern
1:44:25 - Adding the score
1:56:50 - Adding the sound
2:00:32 - Final tweaks

[@ClearCode]

Slight correction at 0:03:12 the text at the bottom is supposed to say python 3.9 not pygame 3.9

[@hariharanthegreat5576]

Can you give link to assets you used here

[@ClearCode]

@@hariharanthegreat5576 check the video description, there is a link to all the files :)

[@aarushpal3736]

you are so sensitive to your mistake love it xD :->

[@jakelanghel8917]

do you hav a link to all the graphics you used??

[@jakelanghel8917]

nvm I didn't notice the github link lol thank you.. I've been trying to teach myself how to program and this is by far one of the best tutorials I have found for free!!! super detailed and you explain everything!! alot of other tutorial I felt like I was just copying what they were doing but not rly understanding why im doing it!! thanks again

[@marnierogers3931]

If anyone is new here and gets stuck around the 40min mark returning an attribute error. Try adding a double underscore before and after __init__. I just learnt a looooong lesson that I'll now never forget! haha

[@kafactz7710]

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I love your Pygame videos. I'm having so much fun with this module, I hope to see more from you :)

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This was by far the most helpful python tutorial I have ever watched! Every single detail was explained super precisely and yet so easily at the same time! Thank you so so much!

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[@RandomJeevanYT]

1:06:39 "Well takes no time at all to create it" More like 2 days for me cuz im doing this sort of stuff for first time 😥 But i understood everything clearly cuz u explain so well so thanks for that🤗

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thanks man! you are one of the best teachers out there, and you brought back my interest in python and programming!

[@sebzanardo]

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[@klausbrier6307]

I found a lot of snake-game-tutorials, but I think, this is really the best one .

[@RohanKumar-zd3pc]

Amazing, It is explained in a very detailed way Of all the logic from the setup to finishing

[@cup624]

i believe this tutorial is the most underrated one of other pyhton tutorials. thanks for your efforts.

[@yussefhallak981]

I got so happy when I saw the notification. This tutorial is gonna help a lot. Thank you!

[@TheDrumtracks]

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[@tayyabsajid7552]

How do you not already have a huge fan base, you're epic!

[@nullifier_]

Thank you so much! You helped me create my first game ever. I even added things like out-of-bound wrapping check for when the snake goes outside of the grid and tail cut for when the head intercepts the body

[@apopodo]

yor channel is INSANELY underrated. I've seen many pygame tutorials yet I only understood 100% of what I was told is in your video, you explain everything so in depth and stop at every line of code to explain. You give examples and even show little animations to show us what you're trying to say. 10/10 keep it up man

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[@Brandonator24]

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[@flippingflipbooks565]

I am currently learning Python, but I don't know ANYTHING about pygame! I really wanted to learn it: My main motive for learning programming was to make games! You are the best person for me to help me learn. You add in litte bits of humor, so your vids aren't just plain coding. I really think that you are the best!

[@uskumru3106]

Python is realy bad choice if you want making game

[@user-hx1lp6fc9r]

Hey friend! How did it go for you?

[@No3inator]

yeah after learning python you can easily start using Godot using gd script which is 90% similar to python because python just has many bad things in game development which you cant avoid

[@Bluemoon_wav]

@@No3inator could you tell me in a broad way what those "bad things" are?

[@jeremyhubaker1199]

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO MAKE GAMES THEN YOU NEED TO LEARN C++ ,C#, JAVA YOU WILL BE LIMITED WITH PYTHON AS IT IS BETTER SUITED FOR DATA MANIPULATION AND BACK ND STUFF. ALTHOUGH PYTHON IS A GOOD START BECAUSE IT IS SIMPLE

[@imherovirat]

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[@HoRRoRlets]

Great job on this Tutorial. Helped me get my head around vectors quite a bit more.

[@clairehua7545]

Wow! This vid is awesome! I didn't even get stuck once! This is probably one of my better python projects. I currently code: block code, text code, java, javascript, C, C+, C++, html, and python. Would love to see more awesome tutorials on those coding languages. Keep up the AMAZING work!

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[@HarryTK]

broken it down makes it seem so user-friendly and easy to use. I can’t wait to start making soft! Thanks again!

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[@sabirkhan6898]

Well explained! I loved the amount of detail given throughout the video

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[@Hotterman10]

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[@sahidabegum7365]

This is the best tutorial about pygame. I enjoyed it and also understand the concepts and logics very easily.

[@Xnothen]

Just started but I'm already loving the detail description of everything we are doing which is far better than some other tutorial which goes blazingly fast yet neglects to explain what is it that we are doing.

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[@majdnassar3257]

Thanks alot, first time i use pygame lib and i understand your tutorial, because you explained every thing very well and clear :)

[@rxphi5382]

Hi, this is a great video, I learned a lot! The draw_grass() function at 1:38:45 seemed a little bit overkill to me tbh, so here is how I did it if anyone is interested in it: def draw_grass(self): for i in range(cell_number): for j in range(cell_number): if (i+j)%2==0: grass_rect = pygame.Rect(j*cell_size, i*cell_size, cell_size, cell_size) pygame.draw.rect(screen, grass_color, grass_rect)

[@arkamukhopadhyay2177]

BG_COLORS = [(125, 215, 70), (100, 200, 50)] for x in range(cell_number): for y in range(cell_number): rect = pygame.Rect(x * CELL_SIZE, y * CELL_SIZE, CELL_SIZE, CELL_SIZE) pygame.draw.rect(screen, BG_COLORS[(x + y) % 2], rect) this does the job as well :)

[@arkamukhopadhyay2177]

@@vihasharma804 works for me though

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[@parthgupta4850]

100th comment says that this is awesome tutorial you teach explain everything as other skip many things and at last we are confused but you are not like them you teach and explain and write everything, best tutorial as well as game of your channel.

[@shubharamanath3049]

thank you for this tutorial, I was struggling to get my snake program to work then I searched the internet to find the solutions but I did not find any , then I saw your vid , I learnt the pygame basics now I have coded many projects in which I had very few errors. thank you again for this very good tutorial. 😀😀😀😀

[@muradarif7373]

I have finished the tutorial, Huge thank you for such a video 🤝👌

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You need more subscribers man! This is quality content!

[@jakenik1241]

Very good work and very good explanation. The only thing I found is that if you press two buttons at the same time like key.up and key.left and the snake goes to the right direction then you cause the game to end, i believe likely because the snake has not had time to go up and gives the command to go right. Again pretty amazing work keep it up!

[@YanisCharef-dy5rk]

That was a simple and a clear tutorial, thank you!

[@atharvapatil7474]

Best tutorial of snake game ever found on KZbin

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I love this tutorial it is so clear and informative! Plus every error i get is always my fault as i did a typo or forgot the () thanks so much i will definitely watch more of your videos and you got another sub!

[@RandomJeevanYT]

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That it's a master CLASS! Thank you! ::)

[@shariqshaikh2421]

I am getting an error about FRUIT class at 39:27. It says that 'Fruit' object has no attribute 'pos' after running it.

[@mr.curious1714]

This is the best video on #PygameBasics and #SnakeGamePython . You have explained everything in the perfect pace. I would recommend this tutorial to everyone who wants to learn pygame and also snake game using pygame. Best tutorial!!!! You Earned a sub!!!!

[@Code_in_simple_English]

These lessons are just awesome. Thank you for posting them. What would be useful in the comments, if you were interested in adding them, are the key concepts taught: like Vector2, enumerate, slicing.. and so on.

[@isakurbanov8627]

Great content keep up the hard work!

[@vmartme]

This is amazing! Thank you so much!!! You doing teaching so good so I can't wait in the morning to continue learning with your tut's :) I have question how make snake moving smoothly (not like now looks lagy moving jumping block_size ) but keep same size and same grid?

[@ElloBruh69]

Thank you. I have learnt a lot from this video!

[@mariozaldivar7802]

Great tutorial! really helped me out!

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[@PixelGaming_2020]

Really good tutorial. You explained everything in amazing detail. With a few other tutorials, they move too quickly, which causes me to have errors in my code that I don't know how to correct. This one is nicely paced, and I end up with a fully working and functional snake game.

[@imSHEN]

how do you fixed 'MAIN' object has no attribute 'snake'

[@potato420]

i love your videos so much you explain perfectly

[@RahilKasimi]

Just Awesome brother, I learned a lot.

[@olavlilj1145]

This was great!!! Thank you!

[@yaroslavkovaliv6884]

great video, love it, pls make some more pygame videos!

[@aditgaur1585]

You defeated the entire purpose of the game in the thumbnail 😂 BTW nice tutorial 👍

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Amazing work thank you so much

[@samkh746]

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[@Vincent-fo9ie]

thankyou very much this really helps. very detailed and explanation is very good. :D

[@salouhimohammed1030]

i think is more efficient to use a while loop to avoid the fruit spawns over the snake, this part i coded it like below while self.fruit.pos in self.snake.body[1:]: self.fruit.randomize() thanks for the great tutorial, a channel like the yours i never seen before

[@nathanwhite704]

Ive been working on this tutorial for nearly 6 hours and im only half way through it, programming is fun but challenging I spent an hour fixing indentation errors.

[@mrmizan1977]

You’re really a great programmer!

[@007JackTR]

Awesome stuff!!! Thanks