Part 8 - Animation

This section introduces the basics of how to use the Pygame library to animate simple items on the screen.

Back to home

What to do/hand in?

1. Go through the Chapter 8 - Introduction to Animation tutorial. Do the required online reading from Chapter 8 of Program Arcade Games.

    • Part 1 - Bouncing Rectangle
          • Feel free to check out the final working program with color changing if you are stuck, but try it on your own first.
          • animated rectangle collision and color.py
    • Part 2 - Falling Snow
        • Make snow.py on your own but you may see completed version of snow.py below if necessary.
        • Try to implement the suggestions. If you are stuck look at:
          • snow with random size.py - basic falling snow with various sizes.
          • snow with random size, speed, color.py - all suggestions implemented

2. Complete the animation assignment in Part 3 of the tutorial listed above.

Submit

1. Chapter 8 Worksheet

2. Your Animation exercise as per Part 3 in the Chapter 8 - Introduction to Animation tutorial.


Part 8 - Introduction to Animation.pdf