Pygame ARPG Tutorial Series | 1. Setup

Part 1 of a planned code along tutorial series for Pygame. Designed to provide a foundation for making your own games in Python using Pygame.
Check out my Demo of Quake 2D plaformer shooter in Pygame on itch.io here mowen88.itch.i.... Also built with a similar framework.
Comments, questions and feedback welcome!

[@samincgs]

This is such an informative and well paced series! Thank you Matt for explaining the pygame concepts so well and making it so beginner friendly. This series is a gem and i will be watching the whole thing, Thank you again and i hope you continue and finish the series

[@mattowen1812]

Thank you it means a lot. I relapsed it was not really finished, this is due to me not being happy enough with the code after this, it's a bit 'patched' up for this particular game and use case, I only really want to do tutorials on adaptable and scalable things which I think we have some good grounding for here. I am working on an even neater framework now which I may share in future.

[@UnderArea51]

One of the BEST TUTORALS of Pygame I've every viewed! Perfect pace for learning!

[@mattowen1812]

Thanks, means a lot. I was worried it was too slow but this is as fast as my brain can do it while talking and coding!

[@LLikzy]

@@mattowen1812 I actually think that this make the whole thing clearer tbh, felt like learning something rather than watching a dude spit out 200 lines a minute

[@dj2460]

This is a fantastic tutorial, great process, clean and well-explained. Please don't stop making tutorials like this.

[@IsatheBoat]

Amazing tutorial could you give me assets for the tutorial please

[@anthonydrakefordshadow]

Thank you 🙏

[@anthonydrakefordshadow]

I made my first 100% original game from scratch yesterday. 1 hour game design, 30 minutes art assets, and 26 hours coding. I only stopped for the bathroom and to eat. 1st time experience for me # I lLOV3 it, thanks for the guidance

[@sbonventure]

This is a GREAT tutorial. It's the first one I've scene that wraps even the game loop inside a class and the code is very well organized. Great job! I learned a lot just from the first video.

[@gabriel_felippe]

Pure Gold, thank you for sharing your experience with us!

[@mixlaproduction]

This looks incredible. Keep it up! Looking forward to see more =)

[@liamfromwales7948]

This is a great tutorial. Your explanations are a lot clearer than other tutorials. Looking forwards to progressing through this series. Thank you!

[@saminhi3025]

Amazing video! Learned so much thank you!

[@101touchapps]

hello matt. thanks for making this. i do have a little experience with python. hopefully i will be able to follow along and learn.

[@AGI-MachineLearning]

Thanks for creating this. Looks great. Saved for watch later.

[@CitizenCoder]

Been searching for recent pygame tutorials and didnt find much. Opened the youtube app and the algorithm decides to recommend this. Nice video, I'm definitely going to go through these. I'd recommend switching to pygame CE if you haven't already, the original pygame isnt getting updated much.

[@mattowen1812]

Thank you, I recall later in the video I install ce.

[@Ilyas-c9b]

Wow , clean and clear explanation .. thanks a lot i really needed help with understanding pygame

[@ali-r8263]

Looks amazing!

[@subarunatsuki1902]

Looks really cool!

[@LetsPlay30497]

great

[@EmiliaKaida]

Can you increase font size/zoom just a little bit? Awesome looking content there :)

[@mattowen1812]

Yes for the next video I will be zooming in the text editor :)

[@vladimirgajdov8502]

Awesome work! Your explanations and effort are amazing. Just one question, where can we find the assets you are using? Thank you!

[@mattowen1812]

Thank you very much! Glad it helps you! You can find a higher res version of the character for free at itch.io if you search 'monochrome ninja' but the tileset was quickly knocked up for the tutorial and I have not uploaded it anywhere yet.

[@wazmeister3151]

Hi Matt, hoping you can help. When calling the states.update and draw in game.py. Why are we referencing the -1 id of the list? We append splash screen which would be allocation [0], but we put -1? Little lost after changing numbers around and trying to find the answer my self? there is nothing append to [-1] at start for our self.states?? many Thanks

[@mattowen1812]

Hi. Index -1 will always reference the last item in the list, even if it's a list of 1 item, it will reference that 1 item :) this ensures we always update and draw the last state appended to the list.

[@tbotkak5832]

How did you implement the save slots in the beginning of the video?

[@mattowen1812]

If you search the comments I was asked this before and I gave an explanation. Basically have a slot variable in the main game class, and add this to the string your write in and out of for the save files. Every time you click on the slot, the main game slot variable will update and therefore the save data will be written to the correct file.

[@sergey_a]

Use Pycharm, not Sublime Text. It highlights all the mistakes that are made in this video.

[@mattowen1812]

Thanks for the heads up!

[@gurjaskapur]

Use neovim

[@VoyivodaFTW1]

Use neovim not pycharm, it has built in LSP, customization and plugins

[@RiveBlakBerry]

Use notebook!

[@Silen1t]

my checkpoint 38:08 / 57:32

[@UrLostPajamas]

Line 19 im getting an error syaing rect = surf.get_rect(center = pos) is an invalid rect assignment

[@mattowen1812]

Make sure the pos parameter you are passing into the render_text function is a tuple of 2 numbers.

[@UrLostPajamas]

@@mattowen1812 YES! it was the tuple in draw state

[@JakubSK]

Why wouldn’t you use neovim?

[@mattowen1812]

Heard lots about it and had a quick browse. I'm just so used to using my current setup. What are the main advantages I would get?