Pygame Cheat Sheet

October 7th, 2011 by Al Sweigart

If you already know a bit of programming and Python, and want to get up to speed on the Pygame 2D game framework, here’s a cheat sheet that you can look over. It implements a very short Pygame program covering most of Pygame’s basic features.

View the Pygame Cheat Sheet.

You can also download the Pygame program itself, along with the cat.png and bounce.wav files it uses. You will need to install Python and Pygame first to run this program. The program looks like this when you run it:

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4 comments on this post.

1. Horst JENS:

   October 9th, 2011 at 12:20 am

   Thanks for explaining PixelArray !

2. Arkapravo:

   October 9th, 2011 at 12:25 am

   Made me smile ! nice one ……

3. Stu:

   October 12th, 2011 at 8:50 am

   Good work, now if there was one for pyglet … but I am lazy and don’t know enough about it.

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