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Python Game Programming By Example

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Python Game Programming By Example

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Python Game Programming By Example
Sep, 2015 | 230 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Python Game Programming By Example
Python Game Programming By Example
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Hello, Pong!
Hello, Pong!
Installing Python
An overview of Breakout
The basic GUI layout
Diving into the Canvas widget
Basic game objects
Adding the Breakout items
Movement and collisions
Starting the game
Playing Breakout
Summary
2
Cocos Invaders
Cocos Invaders
Installing cocos2d
Getting started with cocos2d
Creating game assets
Space Invaders design
Invaders!
Shoot'em up!
Summary
3
Building a Tower Defense Game
Building a Tower Defense Game
The tower defense gameplay
Cocos2d actions
Adding a main menu
Tile maps
The scenario definition
Transitions between scenes
The tower defense actors
Game scene
Summary
4
Steering Behaviors
Steering Behaviors
NumPy installation
Implementing steering behaviors
Gravitation game
Summary
5
Pygame and 3D
Pygame and 3D
Installing packages
Getting started with OpenGL
Adding the Pygame library
Drawing with OpenGL
Basic collision detection game
Summary
6
PyPlatformer
PyPlatformer
An introduction to game design
Introducing Pymunk
Building a game framework
Developing PyPlatformer
Summary
7
Augmenting a Board Game with Computer Vision
Augmenting a Board Game with Computer Vision
Planning the Checkers application
Setting up OpenCV and other dependencies
Supporting multiple versions of OpenCV
Configuring cameras
Working with colors
Building the analyzer
Converting OpenCV images for wxPython
Building the GUI application
Troubleshooting the project in real-world conditions
Further reading on OpenCV
Summary
Index
Index

About the Authors

Alejandro Rodas de Paz is a computer engineer and game developer from Seville, Spain.

He came across Python back in 2009, while he was studying at the University of Seville. Alejandro developed several academic projects with Python, from web crawlers to artificial intelligence algorithms. In his spare time, he started building his own games in Python. He did a minor in game design at Hogeschool van Amsterdam, where he created a small 3D game engine based on the ideas he learned during this minor.

He has also developed some open source projects, such as a Python API for the Philips Hue personal lighting system. You can find these projects in his GitHub account at https://github.com/aleroddepaz.

Prior to this publication, Alejandro collaborated with Packt Publishing as a technical reviewer on the book Tkinter GUI Application Development Hotshot.

I would like to thank my parents, Feliciano and María Teresa, for their absolute trust and support. They have been an inspiration to me and an example of hard work.

I would also like to thank my girlfriend, Lucía, for her love and for putting up with me while I worked on this book.

Joseph Howse is a writer, software developer, and business owner from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Computer games and code are imbibed in his earliest memories, as he learned to read and type by playing text adventures with his older brother, Sam, and watching him write graphics demos in BASIC.

Joseph's other books include OpenCV for Secret Agents, OpenCV Blueprints, Android Application Programming with OpenCV 3, and Learning OpenCV 3 Computer Vision with Python. He works with his cats to make computer vision systems for humans, felines, and other users. Visit http://nummist.com to read about some of his latest projects done at Nummist Media Corporation Limited.

I dedicate my work to Sam, Jan, Bob, Bunny, and my cats, who have been my lifelong guides and companions.

I congratulate my coauthor for producing an excellent compendium of classic examples of game development. I am grateful for the opportunity to add my chapter on checkers (draughts) and computer vision.

I am also indebted to the many editors and technical reviewers who have contributed to planning, polishing, and marketing this book. I have come to expect an outstanding team when working with Packt Publishing, and once again, all of them have guided me with their experience and saved me from sundry errors and omissions. Please meet the technical reviewers by reading their biographies here.

Finally, I want to thank my readers and everybody in the open source community. We are united in our efforts to build and share all kinds of projects and knowledge, paving the way for books such as this to succeed.

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