My freshman year of high school (im 21 now) I got into programming with python and caught on pretty quickly and even made a few point and click games and such... And then I found gamemaker and it all went down hill and Next thing you know i had stopped programming, gamemaker was simple and quick. Well long story short iv missed good ol fashioned programming so now I'm relearning and using pygame. Iv been practicing making images move to various coordinates (like leafs blowing in the wind and cats running and hopping) but now I wanna make "games".
I would like to make a similar game in the future but right no I wanna make Somthing like this but very dumbed down insted of sprites I plan on using basic blocks. I don't need explosions or any thing fancy I just want blocks shooting at one another, and dying after being hit.
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Right now I'm working on making a little block man move around when I press the arrow keys. I found this website and have been playing around with the code by making the character move faster and slower
http://programarcadegames.com/python_examples/show_file.php?file=move_keyboard.py
Should I be practicing anything else in order to achieve my goal game? And do u have any other tips as to adding ai, shooting and such?