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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What you'll learn in this Python course
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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Great course! I didn't think I was capable of doing it but with the guidance of the course is achievable. It's also really rewarding seeing your progress in a real game.
Arturo Rivera
Spain
So much fun really got me thinking about making a game
Zane Maitland
South Africa
Fun course!
Jason Tempinski
United States
This guided project was really fun! There is a lot of hand-holding and copying code, but plenty of "figure it out yourself" as well. It felt like working on a project with a senior dev who handled the most difficult parts of the code, which seems good for newbie!
Cameron Lewis
United States
Nice to fully put a lot of the things you learned thus far toghether in a small project
Okbe p.ivs
Belgium
this one was fun
Dragon Scimitar
United States
really fun and intuitive. More projects like this one!
Daniel Sicsik
Mexico
Great project for really solidifying OOP concepts in Python and learning the basics of pygame!
Sean Collins
Plymouth, NH
Sometimes (acutally quite often) I found the task misleading/unclear.
KRiSP84
Berlin
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