Build Asteroids using Python and Pygame
Make a real arcade game while practicing OOP, vectors, collision detection, and game loops.
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Sarah Schulte
Sarah is an engineer and instructor at Boot.dev. She has been obsessed with making the computer do the thing since the late 2000s. Her career has been a complicated journey from embedded software and game development to mobile and web development. She strives to know a little bit about everything (and a lot about bash).
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Build a clone of the classic Asteroids game using Pygame and object-oriented programming concepts. This guided project will help you understand how to use Pygame to create a game loop, handle user input, and manage game state. You'll also learn how to use object-oriented programming to create game objects and manage their interactions.
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A really fun way to get to grips with classes, creating a modular program, & having different objects interacting with each other.
Orla Kelly
United Kingdom
as this was, a course on basically how to make a game. I wish it really went into how to do the physics and all. I can do the calculations on my own but to apply them in code i think is a different thing but otherwise informative. I think in terms of workflow this really helped and what needs to be present when making a simple game
Nayl Haziq
Malaysia
Amazing course!!! It teaches you the basic of game development. The task were challenging and informative.
Simon Pocrnjič
Slovenia
I think some of the instruction is not easy to follow I need you to instruct me do a then b then c. I find myself having to search back through previous instructions to figure things out unnecessarily.
Tyler Bird
United States
Good course, but content could have been better. I do understand the need of the boiler code, but if it would have been anything meaningful that I would be able to build from scratch rather than reading other code that doesn't make a lot of sense at this stage, that would have been a much better project than this one. I wasn't;t able to connect with the content. Maybe because I am a guy who likes to understand things deeply even in a project before coding
Somnath Sebait
India
Good starter course.
Sergei LastName
Tbilisi
Easy to understand lessons with just a few RTFM parts.
Nathan Gibbs
United States
That was challenging but fun, and I learned a ton
Andrea Keene
United States
Great course overall, although some of the instructions could be clearer, and maybe increase the difficulty a bit? Still very fun to learn though!
Max Yang
United States
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