Create the First Sprite

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Let’s first create the player sprite. First, you need to find an image for this sprite.

Find a suitable image for the sprite

1. Create a new folder called assets. All the media, including images, sound and fonts will be put inside this folder.

2. We have already prepared a sprite image for this tutorial. Locate this image my_first_game/pyscratch/example/getting-started/assets/player-fish.png. Open it and have a look.

3. Copy and paste it inside the assets folder.

Assuming that you have already created the empty scene following the previous page, now your folder should look like this.

Open a new file for a new sprite

In Pyscratch, each sprite should have its own python file that contains the codes controlling the sprite. This is analogous to Scratch having different tabs for different sprites.

We open a new file called player.py

├─ my_first_game/
    ├─ pyscratch/
    ├─ assets/
        ├─ player-fish.png
    ├─ main.py
    ├─ player.py

And put these lines in to player.py to create a new sprite.

import pyscratch as pysc


player = pysc.create_single_costume_sprite("assets/player-fish.png")
player.set_draggable(True) # optional: make the sprite draggable

Here you created a sprite and you assigned it to a variable named player. To optionally make this sprite draggable, you run player.set_draggable(True).

Import the sprite to main.py and run it

Firstly, main.py is always where you start your game program, not any sprite files like this player.py. If you just run player.py, nothing will happen.

Secondly, if you just run main.py as it was, you won’t see your new sprite. You need to add import player in order to tell python to include your code in player to the main program. And now you will see your sprite in the scene when you run main.py.

Your main.py should look like this

main.py

import pyscratch as pysc
import player # Very important!

# start the game
screen_height = 720
screen_width = 1280
framerate = 60

pysc.game.update_screen_mode((screen_width, screen_height))
pysc.game.start(framerate)

What you would see in the game