Game Dev: BomberMan with Python, Pygame and Oop!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: BomberMan Class

Lecture 3: Assets Class

Lecture 4: Game Class

Chapter 2: Creating the Player Character

Lecture 1: Creating the Player Class

Lecture 2: Moving the Player Character

Lecture 3: Getting the Player Images

Lecture 4: Animating the Player Character

Chapter 3: Creating the Level

Lecture 1: Creating the Level Matrix

Lecture 2: Creating the Block and Hard Block Class

Lecture 3: Creating the Soft block Class.

Lecture 4: Filling in the background, and Refactoring

Chapter 4: Player Movement Restrictions and Camera Movement

Lecture 1: Performing Collision Detection

Lecture 2: Easier Navigation through the Game Area

Lecture 3: Creating the "Camera" and scrolling around the screen

Chapter 5: Setting the Bombs, Bomb Animations, Explosions, Explosion animations.

Lecture 1: Creating the Bombs

Lecture 2: Inserting the Bombs into the level matrix, and Animating the Bombs

Lecture 3: Updating the Bomb Timer, exploding the Bomb, Updating the Player bomb count

Lecture 4: Limitng the Bomb Count, and Detonating the bomb at will

Chapter 6: Creating the Explosions and Fireballs

Lecture 1: The Explosions

Lecture 2: Creating and Animating the Explosion

Lecture 3: Calculating the Flame Path 1

Lecture 4: Calculating the Flame Path 2

Lecture 5: Calculating the Flame Path 3

Lecture 6: Creating the Fireball Element

Lecture 7: Destroying the Soft Blocks in Game

Chapter 7: Creating Enemies, Enemy animation, Enemy Movement, Enemy Destruction

Lecture 1: Creating the First Enemy – Ballom

Lecture 2: Moving the Enemy Character

Lecture 3: Changing Movement Direction after a Collision Detection

Lecture 4: Incorporating random Direction changes

Lecture 5: Animating the Enemy

Lecture 6: Populating the stage with Enemies

Chapter 8: Creating the More Advanced Enemies, Player Death and Respawn

Lecture 1: Creating the Line Of Sight for Enemy Characters

Lecture 2: Refactoring the Enemy Class, loading in the Onil Enemy Character

Lecture 3: Chasing the Player Character

Lecture 4: Loading in the Remaining Enemies, adding the Enemy Specials

Lecture 5: Refactoring the Player Code

Lecture 6: Regenerating the Stage, Structuring the Enemy Load order

Chapter 9: Creating and Implementing the Special Power Up Items

Lecture 1: Creating the Power Up Class

Lecture 2: Creating the Special Soft Blocks, Inserting them into the level matrix

Lecture 3: Creating each of the Special Power Up Methods, and calling them when needed.

Lecture 4: Ensuring all of the Power Abilities Work.

Lecture 5: Making the Invincibility Power up work, and Additional Collision detection.

Lecture 6: Implementing the Stage Exit item, and generating a New Stage

Lecture 7: Spawning new Enemies if exploding the special Items

Chapter 10: Creating the Information Panel

Lecture 1: Importing the necessary images for the Info Panel

Lecture 2: Creating and Updating the Level Timer, and ensuring the countdown takes place

Lecture 3: Creating and updating the Player Lives info, and the player Score info

Lecture 4: Implementing Scoring into the game

Chapter 11: Setting up the Start Screen, Creating the Level Transitions, and Sounds

Lecture 1: Implementing the Game Start Screen

Lecture 2: Implementing the Level Transition Screen

Lecture 3: Implementing Sounds and Background Music

Lecture 4: Implementing Character Sounds and Sound Effects

Lecture 5: Implementing Explosion and Power Up Sound Effects, Implementing the Top Score

Lecture 6: Finishing Up