Python Game Programming By Example电子书

Python Game Programming By Example

Table of Contents

Python Game Programming By Example

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Hello, Pong!

Installing Python

An overview of Breakout

The basic GUI layout

Diving into the Canvas widget

Basic game objects

The Ball class

The Paddle class

The Brick class

Adding the Breakout items

Movement and collisions

Starting the game

Playing Breakout

Summary

2. Cocos Invaders

Installing cocos2d

Getting started with cocos2d

Handling user input

Updating the scene

Processing collisions

Creating game assets

Space Invaders design

The PlayerCannon and GameLayer classes

Invaders!

Shoot'em up!

Adding an HUD

Extra feature – the mystery ship

Summary

3. Building a Tower Defense Game

The tower defense gameplay

Cocos2d actions

Interval actions

Instant actions

Combining actions

Custom actions

Adding a main menu

Tile maps

Tiled Map Editor

Loading tiles

The scenario definition

The scenario class

Transitions between scenes

Game over cut scene

The tower defense actors

Turrets and slots

Enemies

Bunker

Game scene

The HUD class

Assembling the scene

Summary

4. Steering Behaviors

NumPy installation

The ParticleSystem class

A quick demonstration

Implementing steering behaviors

Seek and flee

Arrival

Pursuit and evade

Wander

Obstacle avoidance

Gravitation game

Basic game objects

Planets and pickups

Player and enemies

Explosions

The game layer

Summary

5. Pygame and 3D

Installing packages

Getting started with OpenGL

Initializing the window

Drawing shapes

Running the demo

Refactoring our OpenGL program

Processing the user input

Adding the Pygame library

Pygame 101

Pygame integration

Drawing with OpenGL

The Cube class

Enabling face culling

Basic collision detection game

Summary

6. PyPlatformer

An introduction to game design

Level design

Platformer skills

Component-based game engines

Introducing Pymunk

Building a game framework

Adding physics

Renderable components

The Camera component

The InputManager module

The Game class

Developing PyPlatformer

Creating the platforms

Adding pickups

Shooting!

The Player class and its components

The PyPlatformer class

Summary

7. Augmenting a Board Game with Computer Vision

Planning the Checkers application

Setting up OpenCV and other dependencies

Windows

Mac

Debian and its derivatives, including Raspbian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint

Fedora and its derivatives, including RHEL and CentOS

OpenSUSE and its derivatives

Supporting multiple versions of OpenCV

Configuring cameras

Working with colors

Building the analyzer

Providing access to the images and classification results

Providing access to parameters for the user to configure

Initializing the entire model of the game

Updating the entire model of the game

Capturing and converting an image

Detecting the board's corners and tracking their motion

Creating and analyzing the bird's-eye view of the board

Analyzing the dominant colors in a square

Classifying the contents of a square

Drawing text

Converting OpenCV images for wxPython

Building the GUI application

Creating a window and binding events

Creating and laying out images in the GUI

Creating and laying out controls

Nesting layouts and setting the root layout

Starting a background thread

Closing a window and stopping a background thread

Configuring the analyzer based on user input

Updating and showing images

Running the application

Troubleshooting the project in real-world conditions

Further reading on OpenCV

Summary

Index