https://wjmaritz.dev/tags/graphics/Recent content in Graphics on Wilhelm MaritzHugo -- gohugo.ioenSun, 26 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://wjmaritz.dev/posts/pygame-alpha-never-faded/Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://wjmaritz.dev/posts/pygame-alpha-never-faded/<p><a href="https://www.boot.dev/courses/build-asteroids-python" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asteroids on boot.dev</a> is a guided build. Its chapters cover Pygame setup, the game loop, the player, and the asteroids: enough for a working game. Everything past that is left to you, and that is where I kept going, adding momentum, a start menu, lives, scoring, and explosions.</p> <p>The explosions were the fun part. Shoot an asteroid and fifteen white particles fly outward and fade to nothing over half a second.</p>