Breakout: Making a simple game with Python

Prerequisite: you should have gone through the short Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Python before reading this tutorial.

Open the game world environment in a separate tab or browser window and follow along the instructions given in this tutorial to learn how to make your own game. This tutorial is inspired from Bill Mill’s canvas tutorial.

Contents:

• 1. Getting a handle on the canvas
  • 1.1. A quick look at the canvas
  • 1.2. Brython’s browser module
• 2. Using the Library
  • 2.1. What’s happening?
  • 2.2. Why use a library here?
• 3. Events: mouse and keyboard
  • 3.1. Mouse events
  • 3.2. Keyboard events
• 4. Animation
  • 4.1. Automatic animation
• 5. Stay in world!
  • 5.1. Cleaning up
  • 5.2. New code
• 6. Help
  • 6.1. Writing text
• 7. Stay in world: part 2
  • 7.1. Keeping things simple
  • 7.2. Three more times
• 8. Paddle
  • 8.1. Moving paddle?
  • 8.2. Paddle and ball
  • 8.3. More cleanup
• 9. Moving Paddle
  • 9.1. Moving paddle?
• 10. Keeping the paddle in
• 11. Bounding box
  • 11.1. Bouncing the ball off the paddle