Learn and use Python and PyGame to design and build cool arcade games. In Program Arcade Games: With Python and PyGame, Second Edition, Dr. Paul Vincent Craven teaches you how to create fun and simple quiz games; integrate and start using graphics; animate graphics; integrate and use game controllers; add sound and bit-mapped graphics; and build grid-based games.After reading and using this book, you'll be able to learn to program and build simple arcade game applications using one of today's most popular programming languages, Python. You can even deploy onto Steam and other Linux-based game systems as well as Android, one of today's most popular mobile and tablet platforms.You'll learn:How to create quiz gamesHow to integrate and start using graphicsHow to animate graphicsHow to integrate and use game controllersHow to add sound and bit-mapped graphicsHow to build grid-based games

A first to market book on arcade aspect of game development using Python, although there is a self-published book that is arguably another.

0. Before Getting Started.- 1. Create a Custom Calculator.- 2. What is a Computer Language?.- 3. Quiz Games and If Statements.- 4. Guessing Games with Random Numbers and Loops.- 5. Introduction to Graphics.- 6. Back to Looping.- 7. Introduction to Lists.- 8. Introduction to Animation.- 9. Functions.- 10. Controllers and Graphics.- 11. Bitmapped Graphics and Sound.- 12. Introduction to Classes.- 13. Introduction to Sprites.- 14. Libraries and Modules.- 15. Searching.- 16. Array-Backed Grids.- 17. Sorting.- 18. Exceptions.- 19. Recursion.- 20. Formatting.- 21. Labs.-Appendix A. Example Code and Programs.- 23. Appendix B: Sample Tests.- 24. Appendix C: Worksheets.- 25. Appendix D: Version Control.- 26. Appendix E: Wait, What Else CanWe Do?.