Coding Games in Python

Build and play your own computer games, from creative quizzes to perplexing puzzles, by coding them in the Python programming language!

Whether you’re a seasoned programmer or a beginner hoping to learn Python, you’ll find Coding Games in Python fun to read and easy to follow. Each chapter shows you how to construct a complete working game in simple numbered steps. Using freely available resources such as Pygame, Pygame Zero, and a downloadable pack of images and sounds, you can add animations, music, scrolling backgrounds, scenery, and other exciting professional touches.

After building the game, find out how to adapt it to create your own personalised version with secret hacks and cheat codes!

You’ll master the key concepts that programmers need to write code – not just in Python, but in all programming languages. Find out what bugs, loops, flags, strings, and turtles are. Learn how to plan and design the ultimate game, and then play it to destruction as you test and debug it.

Before you know it, you’ll be a coding genius!

*Reading age: 9 – 12 years

Table of Contents

1 GETTING STARTED

2 LEARNING THE BASICS

3 SHOOT THE FRUIT

4 COIN COLLECTOR

5 FOLLOW THE NUMBERS

6 RED ALERT

7 BIG QUIZ

8 BALLOON FLIGHT

9 DANCE CHALLENGE

10 HAPPY GARDEN

11 SLEEPING DRAGONS

12 REFERENCE

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