Chapter 01
Blast Off
Set up your game window, draw your ship on screen and get the game loop running.
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Star Defender: Build Your Own Arcade Game
Build a complete space-shooter arcade game in Python: a real game loop, enemies, collisions, score, lives, levels, sound and a saved high score. Then remix it with your own theme and art and present it. Assumes basic Python.
Has finished at least one project
What you'll learn
- Build a real game loop that runs, updates and draws every frame
- Make independent objects (ship, bullets, enemies) interact and collide
- Add score, lives, levels, a power-up, sound and menus
- Save a high score to a file so it persists between plays
- Isolate and fix bugs in a running system
- Remix the game with your own theme and art, and present it
The course journey
What your child will explore
Follow the course from the first idea to the finished project.
- Chapter 02
Take the Controls
Wire the keyboard to your ship so it glides across the screen at your command.
- Chapter 03
Pew Pew
Give your ship lasers: fire bullets that streak up the screen every time you press the key.
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