Learning Pygame by making Pong

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[@ClearCode]

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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

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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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You’ve done better explaining PyGame than the 90% of PyGame tutorials I’ve watched.

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the function at the end really completed it lol

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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!

[@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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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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Thank you so much, you explain things so simply and intuitively compared to the other ressources I was trying to use

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

[@knightmare6249]

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

[@knightmare6249]

btw who are the six people that disliked this lol

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[@rajab4187]

It's PyGame

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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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

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This is the best channel I ever seen for self learners. keep it up Man!

[@todd3578]

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

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Do you know what software he was using?

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Just made this after watching your flappy bird video. These tutorials are incredible

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

[@mier7239]

Thank you very much for the tutorial - its very well explained - just a pointer on a little twitch in the game: the ball can get behind the 'players' and move weirdly alongside it until it gets out.

[@ClearCode]

Yes, that's true. Although it is only really a problem as long as the ball can bounce on the left and right side of the screen. Once that is removed and the ball just gets reset there it should be fine.

[@jivinhipcat]

I noticed the same thing. I think the ball can collide with the top and bottom surfaces of the player/opponent rect. It then changes the x direction but not the y, so it is still colliding with the same surface during the next move. It keeps changing the x direction this way until it works it's way all the way up/down the player/opponent rect. I tried adding this if-else statement to the collision detection and I think it fixes it. It's such a small amount of movement that you don't notice it, and it makes the ball begin from the infacing side of the player/opponent so the problem collision no longer happens. if ball.colliderect(player) or ball.colliderect(opponent): ball_speed_x *= -1 if ball_speed_x > 0: ball.x = 30 else: ball.x = screen_width - (ball_width + 30) *I think I have adjust the player/opponent paddle sizes to make them a little wider. I don't remember just now what they were originally.

[@ClearCode]

@@jivinhipcat Now I get it, that is indeed a bit of a bug. And your solution is workable but I would say that it doesn't achieve the right goal. Basically, when the ball hits either the top or bottom of the paddle, the player (or opponent) shouldn't be able to recover the ball anymore. A really quick solution would be to change the parameters when ball_start is called from 0 and screen_width to 15 and screen_width - 15. That way the ball starts when it is even a pixel beyond the paddle; and that removes the issue quite drastically. Doesn't look very good though. Another way would be to modify your approach to move the ball to the opposite direction that you send it; and that would trigger the the ball_start function on the next cycle of the while loop. But I don't think it would look good either since the ball would just disappear mid-air (kinda like the approach above). I think the best way to fix this issue would be to properly code a collision for the top and bottom of the paddles, so that we get a proper movement for it. I am planning on making more pygame tutorials anyway, I'll make a video how to fix it next week :)

[@ClearCode]

@@jivinhipcat Here is a good stack overflow answer that explains how to get collisions for different sides: stackoverflow.com/questions/20180594/pygame-collision-by-sides-of-sprite

[@jivinhipcat]

Clear Code nice. I didn’t even think that top/bottom contact should be considered bad, and that makes total sense. I’m just starting with code, and I really like the style of your videos. I’m still playing with this Pong game turning it into an abomination with sounds and images. I plan on watching all your videos as I go. Thanks for making them.

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

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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

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[@bearwater8747]

Just finished this video thank you for helping me learn, I am still a little confused but I am using you to teach myself.

[@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

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Very informative and instructive tutorial! Thank you

[@structuralcraft]

Your teaching outline is good to begin with

[@didyouknowsciences]

Thanks for the tutorial as well as the clear and detailled explanations.

[@ClearCode]

Glad you liked it, let me know if you want me to cover another Pygame topic

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Clean and CLEAR beginner tutorial... as the channel name

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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*

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Good exercise with good explanation. Thank you.

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Your explanations are so clear!! Thank you so much.

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Amazing tutorial. Thank u for all the explanation step by step guy 😃💪

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Your explanation is so clear..

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yup dude u explaain well which is why I also bought ur udemy classes I saw u on it and thanks for the great content

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[@0x656e]

That was a really great video thank you very much for making this great video.

[@DailyFacts698]

I don't know what python was like 3 years ago, but now I was able to make player moving by this lines: keys = pygame.key.get_pressed() ''''if key[pygame.K_UP: ''''''''self.player.x += 7 and this works even when you hold the button :)

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Why do you not have 1+ million subs, people get this man too 1mil

[@hürriyetpalestine]

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

[@muradpetrosyan5128]

The best tutorial for PyGame

[@hariharanm6705]

No words to appreciate Clear Code. Is this a teamwork or all are done by yourself?

[@ClearCode]

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

[@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.

[@gdd9866]

Amazing and well explained.

[@abhalera]

Very nicely explained. Thanks

[@rezashir3873]

actually im zero in programing. i like to become hero in programing, like you. thank you

[@freadbear9645]

This was the first game I learned to make from scratch

[@pcslowhand]

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

[@thelife8836]

You are the best brother❤

[@jurkokubik6383]

this was a really good tutorial!

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@stefanleustean4253]

Really good tutorial!!

[@magoninhogamer]

finally a good pygame tutorial

[@ClearCode]

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

[@magoninhogamer]

@@ClearCode awesome! you deserve more attention :D

[@KeremDemirtas]

Thanks for the tutorial. I just don't get one simple part. Why don't we need to declare player_speed as a global inside the player_animation finction but we need to declare ball_speed_x and ball_speed_y variables as globals inside the ball_animation function?

[@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

[@joeyh2185]

very well made and helpful :) cheers mate

[@akiha7611]

thank you very much for the tutorial, you teach very well bro

[@ChaosArtist]

Thanks for this tutorial, very helpful.

[@iohellemans3280]

great tutorial, loved it

[@duckperson5533]

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

[@leobozkir5425]

19:38... But... We did not create that variable in a function right? I don't understand... I thought that we just made it when the code ran... SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN?

[@ClearCode]

yeah, we did. Whenever you assign a value to a variable name (can be + or something like += ) you create a new variable.

[@munjolla]

Great tutorial!

[@silverseacow]

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

[@kogulansaravanabawan2034]

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

[@TheCaliKing24]

I need help! i copied the code word for word up until the 13:21 mark of the video, but when i try to run it in pycharm all i get is an open window with the title of the window, but no pictures or drawings just a blank window. ive tried other tutorials and also dont get the drawings to pop out in the window when i run my program can anyone help me? ive tried reinstalling pycharm twice but to be honest i think that pygame is the real problem

[@ClearCode]

Hey, I uploaded the code for the game, can you try to run that and see if it works? But besides that it's hard to help because I'd need to see the code.

[@TheCaliKing24]

@@ClearCode hey bro i appreciate the reply, however I already got it working, the issue was that my pygame module wasnt working properly because on my project interpreter i was using an old version of pygame as well as an old version of pip and it wasnt letting me update them until just yesterday it finally updated and is working 100% properly. thanks anyways my friend

[@ClearCode]

@@TheCaliKing24 I know that pain. I have an ancient MacBook Air with preinstalled Python 2 and had to build a custom system for sublime to run code properly... that was incredibly annoying

[@dungngoquang8354]

very useful, thank you so much!!!!

[@erremazo]

Excelent video, thanks a lot.

[@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?

[@kodaditank173]

thank you u saved my life

[@saadedi75]

thanks for all video

[@Mayank-hm7cc]

plz can you help me...sometimes when the ball collides with the top of rects it get dragged along I did all the steps you mentioned

[@eeeehhvgvgf]

oh thats a bug even i noticed 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?

[@NicoV2]

i got an error saying that: AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'tick' i used python 3.9.1 to code this

[@zhankam7308]

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

[@Niels2Oyes]

There is one bug: if you slide in the ball with the player, it's going to do ball_x/-1 multipule times. The bal will get a few seconds stuck in the player, it's really annoying. I can't find a solution for this. Does somebody have one?

[@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?

[@rajab4187]

APIs

[@BabyQuasarX]

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?

[@iceisspider3860]

How did you get this black bacground in python

[@YakyuBoy]

Why does ball_speed_x and ball_speed_y need a global definition but not player_speed?

[@YakyuBoy]

Nevermind, I saw your reply in another comment. Thank you! Clear Code 2 years ago 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 :)

[@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".

[@lu34z]

For anybody having an error with the keys at 23:20 getting the error "K_DOWN not defined". All you have to do is at the top say "from pygame import *" and it should fix it.