TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rodas de Paz,Alejandro
AU  - Howse,Joseph
TI  - Python game programming by example: a pragmatic guide for developing your own games with Python 
T2  - Community experience distilled
SN  - 9781785283918
AV  - QA76.73.P98 R63 2015eb
U1  - 005.13/3 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Birmingham, UK
PB  - Packt Publishing
KW  - Python (Computer program language)
KW  - Computer games
KW  - Programming
KW  - Python (Langage de programmation)
KW  - Jeux d'ordinateur
KW  - Programmation
KW  - COMPUTERS
KW  - Programming Languages
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes index; Cover ; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 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; Chapter 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 classesInvaders!; Shoot'em up!; Adding an HUD; Extra feature -- the mystery ship; Summary; Chapter 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; Chapter 4: Steering Behaviors; NumPy installationThe 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; Chapter 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 gameSummary; Chapter 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; Chapter 7: Augmenting a Board Game with Computer Vision; Planning the Checkers application; Setting up OpenCV and other dependencies; Windows; MacDebian 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
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