Creating a scrolling background in Pygame
We want to create a scrolling window in Pygame for our game of a running horse in a cartoon verse. So we have created an image for its background. And we want that image fig1.1 to be in our frame while our horses will run. In short, we want a scrolling background for our game.
fig 1.1
SCROLL WINDOW:
fig. 1.2
Creating a scrolling background in Pygame
In this article, we are going to know how to create a scrolling background in Pygame.
Pygame offers many advantages for developing basic infrastructure for many games. One of them is the scrolling background. Many of the popular games of all time required this feature of endless scrolling. This scrolling background helps to make the background more creative with less effort.
In a scrolling background, one image is considered as a background that will repeat itself again and again. Thus creating a scrolling endless loop of images. Suppose in a Pygame shell we move a single image from one coordinate to another, thus shifting the pixel of one image to another. Now, these blank pixels can be filled by the other image.
Required libraries:
Run the below command in the command prompt to install the Pygame library.
pip install pygame