Hi I’m doing the freecodecamp’s ‘pygame in 2 hours course’ . At one point the instructor teaches me on how to get key presses but when I tried it didnt work.
Here my code:
import pygame
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600))
pygame.display.set_caption("Space Invaders")
icon = pygame.image.load("ufo (1).png")
pygame.display.set_icon(icon)
playerImg = pygame.image.load("arcade-game (1).png")
playerX = 370
playerY = 480
playerX_change = 0
def player(x, y):
screen.blit(playerImg, (x, y))
running = True
while running:
screen.fill((0, 0, 0))
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
if event.key == pygame.K_LEFT:
playerX_change -= 0.1
if event.key == pygame.K_RIGHT:
playerX_change += 0.1
if event.type == pygame.KEYUP:
if event.key == pygame.K_LEFT or event.key == pygame.K_RIGHT:
playerX_change = 0.1
playerX += playerX_change
player(playerX,playerY)
pygame.display.update()