Pygame Sprite Animation Tutorial – Spritesheets Explained
Static sprites are boring. How do games animate characters? Build a complete Pygame animation system from scratch — spritesheets, delta time and sprite direction in Python.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Animation explained
1:10 Animation class
1:34 First animation
3:20 Animation speed and duration
8:00 Spritesheets
9:41 Spritesheet loader class
11:37 Running animation
13:49 Encapsulate animation control into the game object
15:36 NPC idle animation
What's covered:
How game animation works under the hood
Building a reusable Animation class from scratch
Controlling animation speed with delta time
Loading spritesheets and cutting frames with Pygame
Player direction and sprite flipping
Moving game logic into the update method
This is part of an ongoing series on building and organizing Python projects. If you're learning Python through game dev - stick around, there's more coming.
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🔗 Links:
Project source code: https://github.com/import-sys/python-...
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