Make Games with Python is designed to help you learn the coding skills you need to create amazing games and applications on your Raspberry Pi. The best bit? The price starts at free…

While countless millions of us like nothing more than spending hours racking up high scores on our favourite games, too few of us are exposed to an even more gratifying way to spend the evening – making them.

Written by technologist and tinkerer, Sean M. Tracey, Make Games with Python is made up of ten chapters that take you on a whirlwind tour of Pygame’s game-making capabilities. The book helps you learn essentials Python skills like lists, dictionaries, classes and more.

Here’s a quick breakdown of what you can expect to learn:

• Creating shapes and paths
• Movement and animation
• Using the keyboard & mouse
• Adding sound and music
• Simulating physics and forces
• Building classes for actors
• Creating your own shoot-em ‘up

Download the free PDF today (11MB)

Like the look of The Essentials range? You might quite fancy Conquer the Command Line. The terminal window isn’t as scary as you might think!

If you’d like to support the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s charitable aims you can buy both Make Games with Python and Conquer the Command Line on your favourite Apple or Android device for £2.99 / $3.99 each.

The MagPi app itself is entirely free to download and comes complete with the first 30 issues free!