Learning Pygame by making Pong

A fairly simple Pong game to help you learn the basics of Pygame. We will talk about the fundamentals of Pygame and then incrementally add more elements.
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[@Tila1]

0:18 Installing Pygame 0:51 How Pygame works 5:37 Drawing 13:26 Animations 20:24 Input 24:27 Opponent 'AI' 25:47 Basic Scoring

[@muhammadanas7698]

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[@TN3.1]

That was really helpful. I knew how to make basics but i mainly needed to learn animation and opponent AI. Thank you very much!

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To be honest, I've read the book 'Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame (2007)', but this man accurately and more clearly explained all of that in just 4 videos that too in a concise manner. Thanks a lot. You are awesome.man()

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the function at the end really completed it lol

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[@akshhat97]

This was so crisp and clear. I've seen other tutorials where they just guide you through the code without explaining the underlying concepts but this was definitely what I needed. Thanks!

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[@lousimms4766]

I hope you make more videos, was struggling with pygame trying stuff on my own just reading the documentation but was sooo off with rect collisions, this explained it perfectly!

[@ClearCode]

Thank you, glad it helped :) check out my channel, I already made lots more pygame tutorials

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[@elib7911]

Thanks so much man, I'm a 3rd-year student in college learning computer science. I am very interested in game development/coding and this helped a lot. Hope you make more :)

[@rajab4187]

I'm in 2nd year I'm into web development (front. End) N PyGame too Hope will go any of these twos route Before I mess up in ma mind

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Your presentation style is incredibly intuitive, tysm :D

[@dolphinman9802]

Awesome video! You walked through it all really well and it was easy to follow along to. One change i made to the code though, that made the AI smarter, is i changed the opponent_ai function to compare the opponent center y with the ball instead of opponent bottom and opponent top respectively. This made it so the opponent tried to align its middle with the ball instead of its bottom/top. def opponent_ai(): if opponent.centery < ball.y: opponent.centery += opponent_speed if opponent.centery > ball.y: opponent.centery -= opponent_speed if opponent.top = screen_height: opponent.bottom = screen_height

[@AC-he8ln]

I think these Pong videos are the best starting Pygame starting series on KZbin. The others are also good but too complex for a first project.

[@knightmare6249]

Actually an amazing tutorial, I'm amazed by how you were able to explain the code line by line. Thank you.

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btw who are the six people that disliked this lol

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Astonishing simplicity and amazing content from your part, sir. Thanks really much.

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Best tutorial video I've ever seen! Hats off to this guy

[@knull8508]

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this is the best python tutorial i've ever seen in my life

[@rajab4187]

It's PyGame

[@aidan5077]

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[@Schachlover]

Best explained tutorial ever. U R really a gifted teacher. Wish I had found something similar when I started. Please keep up the good work. Best wishes from D. R.

[@ClearCode]

Thank you so much 🙂

[@Schachlover]

Could you please make a tutorial on string manipulation ; let's say, moving text on the screen using Python or better pygame? Thanks in advance.

[@todd3578]

This video is amazing, you really know how to explain the code!

[@ismailaminu9826]

Do you know what software he was using?

[@xadas5230]

I just had the urge to write this comment, and compliment you for doing those type of videos, as a beginner/intermediate programmer this really helps me to understand pygame better. Thanks for your work, looking forward to more videos of yours.

[@jivinhipcat]

I wish all videos were this good. Thanks for it man.

[@michaelshuvalov9100]

Amazing clarity, someone who clearly not only knows how to execute the code, but has a thorough understanding in it. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Mr Einstein

[@ClearCode]

Thank you!

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@@yuka8286 Well, there was some other conversation going on and I see some comments are deleted. So, I think you didn't understand the topic because of deleted comments.

[@gamedog123games]

I've been trying to make a game without an engine (yet my brain stops working when I open VSCode) and this was a lifesaver and helped me start out with a small project

[@chigstardan7285]

This is one of the best tutorials ive ever seen and the clarity is.... Muah. Keep up the good work

[@semajislove2353]

My first Python project, thank you very much, Good Sir!

[@ClearCode]

You're welcome and glad you liked it :) I made lots more pygame tutorials and I will make a video on a much better pong game in about a week!

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[@David-fq5un]

great explanation...hate other tutorials that just try to have you copy their code without explanation

[@Oxim1nus]

Really helpful and very well explained, i did this and some of your other tutorial-projects and it's a great way to learn, please keep going with the great job

[@structuralcraft]

Your teaching outline is good to begin with

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[@polyeder2000]

To solve the problem with keydown: Use keys = pygame.key.get_pressed() if keys[pygame.K_w]: This way the player will move as long as the key (w in this case) is held down. Do this after checking for events (and don't check the movement keys in the events section.)

[@jefhamish]

With this method, my player's speed seems inconsistent and/or slower than it should be as if for some frames it's missing that the button is held down.

[@davependrell6653]

Awesome tutorial video. Your transitions and animations are super nice as well.

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you are greAt ! a wonderful experience thanks a lot a different from all the other videos (a straight to the point video with clear concepts) really thanku *now I got to know what power does coding has*

[@AbhishekKumar-dq1dr]

I am having python 3.7.0 version on my mac. So will it work after installing pi game using terminal to make the pong game? Please reply fast

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Yes please tell

[@kaberanshutisamuel1856]

how I learned this is hilarious, I first followed along tutorial and then the nextday i tried to do it without tutorial and comeback for where I am stuck, the funny thing I am very understanding it for the second time

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Subscribed, awesome, perfect,wonderful and really understandable, Thank you Clear Code for this amazing Content.

[@mitchellfolbe8729]

Good exercise with good explanation. Thank you.

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[@ClearCode]

hey, yes I am making it by myself (looks much harder than it actually is tbh)

[@lucasreingo]

Thanks so much for this pog tutorial. Also if you want to make the AI a bit better in the opponent_ai function instead of opponent.top < ball.y:, you can use opponent.centery. This is more efficient as it checks if the ball is lower or higher than the center of the opponent Rect.

[@IGOverkill]

thanks it really made the program better but you also need to replace ' opponent.bottom ' with 'opponent.centerx'

[@lucasreingo]

@@IGOverkill yh, soz I forgot that. Good luck on your pygame journey

[@kogulansaravanabawan2034]

Very use full sir! And please tell me how to create this game for mobile phones!

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Your explanation is so clear..

[@freadbear9645]

This was the first game I learned to make from scratch

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[@MrFeivelinho]

Easily one of the best tutorials on coding i have seen so far. Does anybody know how difficult it would be to add multiplayer (via internet) to the game?

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[@gdd9866]

Amazing and well explained.

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very useful, thank you so much!!!!

[@pcslowhand]

Thanks very much for this video. It was really helpful :)

[@muradpetrosyan5128]

The best tutorial for PyGame

[@ScoobyYTP]

The ball_animations function does not allow the player and opponent variables to operate correctly. As far as the computer is concerned, those variables only exist outside of this function. How do you go about solving this issue?

[@saadedi75]

thanks for all video

[@lorendaoust4443]

Thanks for this tutorial. Having absolutely no code experience, I was able to follow along and get a game working with some small changes so I have two players. I used ai to add a score game ender and mouse control - like I said, no code experience. I am hoping to use this for a setup using two bicycles mounted on a frame that control the paddle movement. I have a working prototype now. The only thing I'd like to add is changing the ball graphic to a small pixel graphic of the grinch's face. Is this a possibility? Could you point me in the right direction to look if it is? Thanks for this again.

[@latviesupidari2103]

For player movement, I found it easier to put this code inside the While loop instead of For loop: keys = pygame.key.get_pressed() if keys[pygame.K_UP]: player.y -= 7 if keys[pygame.K_DOWN]: player.y += 7

[@edwardchen4447]

How do you not have like a million subs? just a question, HOW!?

[@hariharanm6705]

I think it is a new channel

[@magoninhogamer]

finally a good pygame tutorial

[@ClearCode]

Thanks, I actually made quite a few by now :)

[@magoninhogamer]

@@ClearCode awesome! you deserve more attention :D

[@swiftal8312]

Your the best, i watched someone else and he made my pygame so it looked blocky and 30 fps. But with your vid its smooooooooth

[@zhankam7308]

thanks for the video, but I have an error in PowerShell at the beginning

[@janl5242]

Great stuff, thanks :)

[@vedantpandey4079]

Hey, awesome tutorial, keep up the good work! One very minor error, at 17:41 it says "Colissions" instead of "Collisions".

[@jurkokubik6383]

this was a really good tutorial!

[@abhalera]

Very nicely explained. Thanks

[@madhavkrishna4579]

where do i get this code as i wanted to work on this

[@abdelrahmanabbas4414]

Module 'pygame' has no 'init' member Can you help me with this, please?

[@ekimosos281]

can i see full error

[@conorhogan6111]

Why does ball_speed_x and ball_speed_y have to be included as global variables in ball_animation, but player_speed not have to be included in player_movement?

[@MikaelL]

Good tutorial

[@joeyh2185]

very well made and helpful :) cheers mate

[@Sharky_0456]

thanks! this was my first project so i had a lot of bugs but it was really fun! i will do part 2 soon!

[@seamusstinson62]

Hey, Thanks for the video. I have a question about the code though. Why does ball_speed_x and ball_speed_y need to be global but player_speed doesnt need to be global?

[@ClearCode]

When using the player_speed variable it is only used by the player_animation function, the function does not change the value (so if you wanted to change the speed of the player from the function you would need to declare it a global variable. Both the ball_speed variables change the variable from within the function; i.e. you are trying to change a global variable from a local scope. Hope that makes sense :)

[@seamusstinson62]

@@ClearCode Yeah that makes sense. Thanks very much

[@riya6549]

can someone explain to me why we needed to increment player _speed at every loop when the key is pressed down instead of directly incrementing the y coordinates of player when the same happens?

[@heysiri_official]

He explain it at 21:25

[@riya6549]

@@heysiri_official yeah, i know he mentioned it...but i still couldn't get why exactly. A little expansion would help

[@alsoalpha9162]

should this work in repl.it? cause im trying to do it on there (my computer just doesnt want to recognize that pygame is downloaded so i have to use something online) and i am only getting like the top left quadrant of the screen.

[@ClearCode]

So repl does support pygame but I am not sure how large of a window it supports. Maybe try different window sizes and see what fits. Are you getting an error message for pygame on your computer?

[@alsoalpha9162]

@@ClearCode i am getting an error message saying that no setup file exists (i have a screenshot of the whole error message) and also i have not thought about if replit only supports a certain size window, thanks!

[@erremazo]

Excelent video, thanks a lot.

[@iohellemans3280]

great tutorial, loved it

[@kostaskoukos3932]

for some reason I have written the code properly but when i press the arrow keys it doesn't always register it and I thought it was a matter of multiplying with deltatime but it still doesn't work. Can someone help?

[@roandejager8534]

Very good

[@mr.blobfish5535]

sympathisch. Man kann sich unterhalten.

[@A6h4v]

If you u want a big nice screen in a laptop use - 1000 width and use 700 height

[@mr__aathithya]

For me arrow keys is not moving it. I am using a laptop do I have to change something?

[@stolimoli]

Why didn't you have to declare global variables for the player movement like you had to for the ball movement?

[@toxxicdutchie232]

When I started code I was told don't use python its slow so I used python because honestly it looked straight forward and I had messed with some more complicated languages that I ddin't really understand and now I just love python. Then I was looking at things and I was told tkinter really wasnt great but it was something but under no circumstance should I use PyGame but here we are.

[@sooriyashankar2776]

Hey! I really gained a lots of information. CAN YOU PL GUIDE ME HOW TO ADD SOUND EFFECTS AND TIMER???

[@ClearCode]

Glad you like it! and check out my channel, I made a couple of sequels for this game and timers and sound effects are covered there.

[@iumair_mehmood]

which IDE is used in this video ?

[@fernandoalmer3312]

Yo i set the ball speed to 1, but it's still too fast when i run it, but when i set it to 0.5 or .5, it doesn't move, any solution? Edit: and also when i grouped the ball animation, it doesnt even open the game

[@silverseacow]

18:46 Like cant we also add arguments, ballxspeed and ballyspeed for the function ball_animation() instead of global variables

[@Sharky_0456]

what are you using? raw python doesnt have those suggestions.

[@snxphy]

the code is word for word yet my paddle just drops to the ground and i dont understand why, any help?

[@seyd]

Help! it says error: File "F:\PythonSachen\Scripts\PongPy\Pongpy.py", line 28, in opponent_ai if opponent.top < ball.y: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'opponent' referenced before assignment

[@srininja]

This tutorial is so good, and I'm so exited i haven't played the game yet, but i have a question. The height is too big that the window goes out of my computer screen. I've changed the width and height to make it smaller, but i have a feeling it won't work. Can you give me a better solution if you have one? Thank you for the tutorial

[@leobozkir5425]

I>>> SIMPLY>>> LOVE>>> IT>>>

[@jarkk0896]

can i do to opponent as 2player like he can control anotehr pad with like wasd

[@scfs2.0]

When i run the code I don’t get any window pops up

[@duckperson5533]

0:49 For me it says: No module named pygame, even after installing it again.

[@adarshkhatri993]

Rather your channel name(Clear Code) specifies your coding skills 😊

[@demonlord3375]

My restart command is not working any suggestions

[@georgeperson8917]

the tutorial is great and i followed it, but when i finished the colors for everything and i ran it,it just shown a black screen,i am on linux so if anyone could help me i would be very thankfull