#🔒 Trying to make a Flappy bird game

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tulip patrol
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I saw a youtube video about a guy using python in sublime text to create a mock version of Flappy Bird
So I tried copying his basic codes, his video is basically a tutorial explaining every step in creating the game. But after trying to Build the code with sublime text, nothing appears like the "app" that appeared on his video.
Code:

import pygame

pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((500,800))
pygame.display.set_caption('Boblox')
running = True
GREEN = (0, 200, 0)
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

while running:
clock.tick(60)
screen.fill(GREEN)

for event in pygame.event.get():
    if event.type ==pygame.QUIT:
            running = False

pygame.display.flip()

pygame.quit()

dreamy juniperBOT
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tulip patrol
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What supposed to happen is there's a green screen app looking like thing that pops up

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But there's nothing here

charred quarry
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The code is correct and works. How are you running it?

tulip patrol
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Erm? Ctrl + S + B ?

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To build it in Sublime Text

exotic rivet
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Let's ignore sublime text for a moment since I don't know what it does for python. Let's try running your program from a terminal. In a terminal run:

python main.py

Assuming you named the files main.py. Use whatever name you called the file.

tulip patrol
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Is it not the way to do it?

charred quarry
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Yeah, it's easiest to see what's wrong if you run it in the terminal

tulip patrol
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im using windows and uh gimme a sec

charred quarry
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You can run it with cmd.exe in Windows

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sublime probably has an integrated terminal window

tulip patrol
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k it says no module named pygame

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did i forget to download something

charred quarry
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Right, so you haven't installed pygame

exotic rivet
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(btw, I tested your code above and it opens a green window, so we're gonna work on runnign it in python and making sure pygame in stalled)

tulip patrol
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So how exactly do i download this pygame?

charred quarry
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Did the guide you followed not talk about that?

tulip patrol
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and what is it?

charred quarry
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pygame is a game development framework for Python

tulip patrol
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Also for some reason, the right click to open command space here in windows no longer exist?

exotic rivet
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pip install pygame to install it.

(btw, we should install this in a virtual environment, but for for now, we'll jst install it globally. it's a bad practice, but it doesn't matter for today)

tulip patrol
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Most of the guides i found are using that way to open and write their codes

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will this affects anything afterward?

exotic rivet
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nah.

tulip patrol
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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools._distutils.msvccompiler'
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed to build 'pygame' when getting requirements to build wheel

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Erm

charred quarry
tulip patrol
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It goes a longggggggggg way then there's that at the end

exotic rivet
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That error means: "We need compile pygame from source code and I can't find a C compiler to do so".

What python are you on? python --version

tulip patrol
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3.14.2

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is it an old one or smth?

exotic rivet
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no, it's new. it's good.

charred quarry
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Maybe pygame-ce instead of pygame

tulip patrol
charred quarry
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dunno if pygame has 3.14 support yet

old goblet
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Can I chime in and suggest pip install pygame-ce instead? I suspect that the original pygame has issues with the latest python release, may not work with python 3.14

exotic rivet
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Some python libraries have c/c++ components. Expecially something like pygame that may need to use opengl/DirectX or other graphics libraries.

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You don't need to write any C. It uses it internally to the pygame library.

tulip patrol
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Okay i understand 15% of what you said but ill try

charred quarry
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@tulip patrol

tulip patrol
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I suppose i run pip install pygame-ce this now?

charred quarry
tulip patrol
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okay it installed successful

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OHHHHHHH

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I RAN the file

old goblet
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Awesome, now try running you pygame code

tulip patrol
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There goes my green box

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🔥

charred quarry
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Now you just gotta learn Python and then pygame and then you can make your own 2D games

tulip patrol
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I wanna ask one more thing

exotic rivet
tulip patrol
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Im currently following a free course on python that goes over most of the stuffs?
I've been through the basics like list, tuple, str, float, int. What do I study next?

charred quarry
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pygame-ce is essentially the official pygame release nowadays

charred quarry
# tulip patrol Im currently following a free course on python that goes over most of the stuffs...
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^ All of these are great beginner resources

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And they cover all the fundamentals

tulip patrol
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I know this sounds stupid but uh what exactly can i do with python?

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People told me its not that great in terms of making games

exotic rivet
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Anything*

tulip patrol
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Nor does it run a website

charred quarry
charred quarry
tulip patrol
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So how do i make my website and make it run my print('Hello World')?

charred quarry
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Though you'd probably want to use something else for making a commercial game.

charred quarry
harsh warren
exotic rivet
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Python isn't really used for any big AAA games, but it's a great general purpose programming language, useful to learn, and perfectly capable of many games.

tulip patrol
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what exactly does this mean

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so python can be used to run a website

charred quarry
tulip patrol
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but i cannot show my stuffs on it?

charred quarry
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Yes, you can

tulip patrol
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okay lets say i have a py file with some codes in it, how do i turn that file into a web?

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or does it go deeper than that?

charred quarry
drifting lintel
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had a look at the top 10 "overwhelmingly positive" games on steam yesterday, I saw 4 of them that could be written in python with no impact on performance

tulip patrol
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Idk what language but i saw someone being able to write some codes and when they click run it changes on the website on google as well

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thought that was kinda cool

plush rapids
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if you have rented a website you can put stuff on it

charred quarry
tulip patrol
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I don't understand a single piece of info after that

charred quarry
tulip patrol
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okay see u in a few days

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i shall make my bird fly

charred quarry
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Feel free to come back and ask more questions if you need it

old goblet
dreamy juniperBOT
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