Make Games with Python
by Sean M. Tracey
Publisher: The MagPi Magazine 2016
Number of pages: 154
Description:
In this book, we are going to learn to make games on the Raspberry Pi with Pygame. We'll look at drawing, animation, keyboard and mouse controls, sound, and physics. This book isn't for absolute programming beginners, but it's not far from it.
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