Pygame tutorial 1 – part 3.2 – Move Sprite

This time we are going to load a surface with an image to move it on the screen with the arrow keys. Something very basic, the next time we will go deeper into sprites moving and collisions too. The github repo with the examples are here.

import pygame


pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((400, 600))


class Cat:
    x = 100
    y = 100


cat = pygame.image.load("cat/Idle (1).png").convert_alpha()
square = pygame.Surface((cat.get_size()))
square.fill((0, 180, 250))
sw, sh = screen.get_size()
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
while True:
    screen.fill((128, 255, 128))
    # screen.blit(pygame.transform.scale(cat, (sw, sh)),(0, 0))
    #screen.blit(square, (Cat.x, Cat.y))
    screen.blit(cat, (Cat.x, Cat.y))
    if pygame.event.get(pygame.QUIT):
        break
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
            if event.key == pygame.K_RIGHT:
                Cat.x += 10
            if event.key == pygame.K_LEFT:
                Cat.x -= 10
            if event.key == pygame.K_UP:
                Cat.y -= 10
            if event.key == pygame.K_DOWN:
                Cat.y += 10



    pygame.display.update()
    clock.tick(60)


pygame.quit()