Making my first ever game with pyagame-ce!

Arman Singh — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:12:12 +0000

I'm building my first ever game, Echoes of Ember! It is a small pixel-art platformer made with Python and pygame-ce.

My favorite thing I've built so far is the parallax background. It's three layers (sky, distant ruins, mid ruins) each scrolling at a different speed as the camera moves, which gives the whole scene a sense of depth:

ParallaxLayer("sky.png", scroll_factor=0.0, ...)
ParallaxLayer("distant-ruins.png", scroll_factor=0.3, ...)
ParallaxLayer("mid-ruins.png", scroll_factor=0.6, ...)

Lower scroll factor = moves less = feels farther away. Simple trick, but it's the part I'm proudest of so far.

This is my first game ever, so I'm mostly posting this to get feedback and suggestions from people who've been down this road before...what would you do differently, what am I missing, what should I prioritize next?

I'm logging progress on this as part of my Hack Club program: Link

Repo is here if you want to poke around: Link

I spent way too long on my portfolio...here's what I built, tell me what's wrong

Arman Singh — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:43:58 +0000

hello everyone!

I'm Arman, currently in my first year of an AI & Data Science major.

I think I finally finished my dev portfolio (kind of) built with Next.js
(had no idea what it was but someone told me it's good for SEO, so I stuck
with it)

It was originally inspired by another developer whose name I can't remember,
but I customized pretty much everything at this point (except some UI).

I'm currently experiencing some serious design fatigue from staring at the
same UI for too long...so I'd love some fresh eyes on it.

Would be amazing if you guys took a look and lemme know what you think!

GitHub: https://github.com/armansinghh/portfolio
Live: http://localhost:3000/

just kidding, it's here: https://armansingh.me

DEV Community: Arman Singh

Making my first ever game with pyagame-ce!

I spent way too long on my portfolio...here's what I built, tell me what's wrong