Build Asteroids using Python and Pygame
Build a clone of the classic Asteroids game using Pygame and object-oriented programming concepts.
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Sarah Schulte
Sarah is an engineer and instructor at Boot.dev. She has been obsessed with making the computer do the thing since the late 2000s. Her career has been a complicated journey from embedded software and game development to mobile and web development. She strives to know a little bit about everything (and a lot about bash).
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Build a clone of the classic Asteroids game using Pygame and object-oriented programming concepts. This guided project will help you understand how to use Pygame to create a game loop, handle user input, and manage game state. You'll also learn how to use object-oriented programming to create game objects and manage their interactions.
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GIves just the right amount of nudges so you're not looking everything up, really feels like you're a "good" programmer.
Carter Beagle
United States
Great proyect. Fun to develop a game and play it. Was my first experience as a game dev.
David Elias Forero Cobos
Colombia
Amazing hands on experince, gives you a taste of what it will be like working on your own project soon.
Mohamed Elbana
Egypt
An appropriate rite of passage. hehe.
Divine-Beanbag
United States
It's a bit dumbed-down because student's skills aren't quite there, but the value is in creating a thing, even if it entails a lot of handholding and AI assistance. Worth it and pretty fun. Open ended too so if you want to enhance the codebase on your own it's an option.
Jeffrey Knight
Boulder, CO, USA
Amazing course and full working project!
Mohanad Osman
New York, USA
Easy to follow lessons to build a very basic version of Asteroids. It was also fun to get to play a game you created!
Mike Lalonde
Canada
I found myself being stuck a lot and the pygame library wasn't exactly easy to use in my opinion or maybe it was just me.
Samuel Adekoya
Nigeria
great course to apply eveything that was learned beforehand. challenging sometimes but definitely beatable :) no souls-like but also no mario cart
Akram Naser
Switzerland
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