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Game development with Python Pygames

Module Description

In this course, you'll dive into game making with Python and Pygame! Learn to create colorful windows, draw shapes, make characters move and jump, add animations, sounds, scores, and even simple enemies. By the end, you'll build your own adventure platformer game full of treasure hunts and excitement.

What You’ll Learn?

Set up Pygame and create a colorful magic window
Draw fun shapes, pictures, and build a sunny park scene
Make things move using keys and mouse clicks
Create super hero sprites that collect stars
Add collisions, jumps, and mazes to your game
Design a treasure hunt platformer with coins
Animate characters to walk, jump, and wave
Add cool jump sounds and adventure music
Show scores and fun messages like 'You Win!'
Add moving monsters, save scores, and polish your game

Making games is super exciting and a great way for kids to learn coding! With Pygame, you'll turn your ideas into playful adventures, like jumping heroes and treasure hunts, while picking up Python skills in a fun, hands-on way that feels like playtime.

Module Curriculum

Lesson 1: Let's Start Our Game Adventure!

Kids will set up Python and Pygame, learn to open a game window, and make a simple colorful screen that responds to closing. This builds excitement for creating their own games.

Project: Create a magic window that changes colors when you click
Concepts: Installing Pygame, game loop, basic events

Lesson 2: Drawing Fun Shapes and Pictures

Building on the game window, kids will draw circles, squares, and add images like animals or stars to make their screen look like a playground.

Project: Draw a sunny park with trees and a ball
Concepts: Shapes, colors, surfaces, blitting images

Lesson 3: Making Things Move with Keys and Mouse

Now that we can draw, let's make objects move! Kids will use keyboard arrows to slide shapes around and click to add new ones.

Project: Move a cute animal across the screen with arrow keys
Concepts: Events, key presses, mouse clicks

Lesson 4: Adding Super Characters with Sprites

Turn drawings into 'sprites' – like game heroes! Kids will create a character that moves smoothly, building on input from before.

Project: Make a hero sprite that runs around collecting stars
Concepts: Sprite class, groups, updating positions

Lesson 5: Bumping into Things – Collisions and Jumps

Make games more real by stopping characters from going through walls. Add simple jumps like in adventure games.

Project: Build a maze where the hero can't pass walls and jumps over gaps
Concepts: Collision detection, basic gravity and velocity

Lesson 6: Creating Your First Adventure Platformer

Combine everything to make a fun jumping game! Kids will design levels with platforms and collectibles.

Project: Design a treasure hunt platformer with jumps and coins
Concepts: Level design, boundaries, simple physics

Lesson 7: Making Characters Come Alive with Animations

Add walking and jumping moves to sprites using picture strips, making the game look like a cartoon.

Project: Animate your hero to walk, jump, and wave in the platformer
Concepts: Sprite sheets, frame animation, timing

Lesson 8: Adding Cool Sounds and Music

Make the game noisy and fun with boings for jumps and happy music in the background.

Project: Add jump sounds and adventure music to your platformer
Concepts: Sound effects, background music, triggering sounds

Lesson 9: Showing Scores and Fun Messages

Add a scoreboard to track coins and lives, with big fun letters on the screen.

Project: Display score and 'You Win!' messages in your game
Concepts: Fonts, rendering text, updating displays

Lesson 10: Adding Friends, Foes, and Finishing Touches

Add simple moving enemies or friends, save high scores, and polish the game to share with friends.

Project: Add patrolling monsters, save scores, and add a start screen
Concepts: Basic AI movement, file saving, game menus

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