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Building Alien Invasion: My Journey Through Python Crash Course

Hey everyone! đź‘‹

As part of my learning journey, I'm currently working through the 3rd edition of Eric Matthes' Python Crash Course.

I've just hit the famous Alien Invasion project (I'm on page 283), building the Pygame arcade game from scratch.

Since I've already used OOP quite a bit in previous projects—like building desktop GUIs with customtkinter.

It’s been really cool to see how those same concepts apply to game loops, sprite management, and real-time user input handling.

Once I wrap up the base project, I plan to:

Make the repository public on GitHub.

Create a second branch to add a few custom extras (Not sure what they will be yet).

Is anyone else currently working through this book or building Pygame projects? I'd love to connect, trade tips, or see what extra features you added to your game!

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Well I finished the alien invasion project. I decided not to make a second branch. I just updated the main branch with the features changed a few little bits here and there but overall I'm happy with how the project turned out,

Would love some feedback if anyone has time? As this project was part of my learning journey.

Thanks in advance 👍

Project link: github.com/henderson-01/Alien_Inva...