About

This module provides live coding in pygame.You can see your code changes at once without restart application.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/125838640/226334376-04f91f11-1775-49e5-8b04-2704e3355197.mp4

Note: Your Game should be implemented OOP style

Installing

pip install pygamelive

How to use?

Step 1

Import PygameLive class from package.

from pygamelive import debugger

Step 2

Create instance of PygameLive class in your game class.

def __init__(self):
        pg.init()
        self.screen = pg.display.set_mode(RES)
        self.clock = pg.time.Clock()
        self.load_assets()
        self.sound = Sound()
        self.score = Score(self)
        self.fire = DoomFire(self)
        self.new_game()

        self.py_live = debugger.PygameLive()

Step 3

Use debug method on your draw, update and check_event methods in your game loop.

def run(self):
        while True:
            # self.check_events()
            # self.draw()
            # self.update()
            #Live coding
            self.py_live.debug(self.draw)
            self.py_live.debug(self.update)
            self.py_live.debug(self.check_events)

Your code changes on the methods which you added using self.py_live.debug(self.draw) will be displayed immediately

Note: You can name your methods differently but the design of your game should be alike the design pattern noted below.

Example Game

Example game (FlappyDooM) is made by Stanislav Petrov StanislavPetrovV.

Critical Info

You should design your game like this to work PygameLive properly(highly recommended to look up example folder):

graph LR

B(Game Object Renderer 1) --> C(Main Renderer)
D(Game Object Renderer 2) --> C(Main Renderer)
E(Game Object Renderer 3) --> C(Main Renderer)

Note: Please look up example repo and change main.py file with the orginal one.