alien-invasion

Alien Invasion game from Python Crash Course book

Add Pygame package when using PyCharm

The Alien Invasion game requires the Pygame package to be installed. If it is missing, PyCharm will show the following error:

To add the package for the Alien Invasion game, move the cursor to import pygame and press Alt-enter. The following popup menu should be shown:

To install the Pygame package, select Install package pygame. This only works when using a correctly configured virtual environment.

Installing Pygame

To install Pygame for the current user, enter the following command at a terminal prompt:

$ python -m pip install --user pygame

To install Pygame globally on Debian based systems, do:

# apt-get install python3-pygame

Quitting the game

The alien invasion game will start in fullscreen mode. To exit the game, type 'q'