Month: January 2014

The Hullet Bells – Part 5 (Valuing your Input)

What is Input Handling, anyway? Handling input is the process of taking the player’s key presses and converting them to actions in game. Pygame supports two methods for doing this: 1) Examining the state of the keyboard directly each frame, which I’ll refer to as the key state method. 2) Key events, where the game […]

The Hullet Bells – Part 4 (Insert Title Here)

The title screen! At this point in game development, it’s probably a waste of time, especially if you’ve already decided to implement a handler system that will let you slot the title screen in at the end. But what’s done is done, so here it is! Obviously a work of art. In this post, I’d […]