A simple, quick, useful hack. [Prashant]’s code relies on the use of Pygame, a set of Python modules designed for writing games.

David Crookes and Liz Upton will take you behind the scenes of the creation of five classic arcade games, and then I’ll show you how to implement a simple Python game inspired by each one.” ...

It’s a great introduction to Python and a great introduction to building fairly simple but interesting games. The author’s not just a talented coder, but a Python maestro.

To make your own games, you need to give the computer easy instructions to follow in a language it can understand – code.