Learn how to make a game in Python using the popular Pygame. You'll learn how to handle player inputs, draw graphics, and more.

For this tutorial, we will be using our Raspberry Pi and a programming language called Python to create our very own text adventure, with our own game world and some characters to inhabit that world.

Using a Python Interpreter You can choose to write your code in a text file, but how does it run? The Python interpreter reads the text file and runs it as Python code.

To make your own games, you need to give the computer easy instructions to follow in a language it can understand – code.

Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python is an excellent book on Python, on programming, and on coding techniques for building games – appropriate for pre-teens to adults.

This post explains what a Python module is and how to use it to drastically extend the capabiltiies of your code. Plus: how to make your own!