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Building Games with pygame

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Advanced Guide to Python 3 Programming

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pygame is a cross-platform, free and Open Source Python library designed to make building multimedia applications such as games easy. This chapter introduces pygame, the key concepts; the key modules, classes and functions and a very simple first pygame application.

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Hunt, J. (2019). Building Games with pygame. In: Advanced Guide to Python 3 Programming. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25943-3_12

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