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Can You Make This Python Racing Game Better?๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿง  Let's Code Together!

๐Ÿš— Letโ€™s Build a Better Racing Game Together! (Python + Pygame)

Hi folks! ๐Ÿ‘‹

I recently created a simple Racing Car Game using Python and Pygame. It was a fun way to explore basic game logic, sprite movement, and obstacle generation.

But this game is still in its early stage and has lots of potential โ€” and Iโ€™d love to turn it into a collaborative open-source mini-game with your help! ๐Ÿ’ช


๐Ÿ”ง Current Features

  • Arrow-key controlled car
  • Moving road animation
  • Random obstacles
  • Simple start/crash logic

๐Ÿง  What You Could Help With

Here are a few cool improvements you could contribute:

  • โœ… Add collision detection (right now cars go through each other!)
  • โœ… Add sounds and background music
  • โœ… Create a better UI (main menu, game over screen, etc.)
  • โœ… Add score tracking and high score system
  • โœ… Make it mobile responsive using touch controls
  • โœ… Multiplayer or time challenges?

๐Ÿ”— GitHub Repository

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game screenshot


๐Ÿค Letโ€™s Code Together!

If youโ€™re learning Python or Pygame, this is a great chance to contribute to something fun.

Iโ€™m open to Pull Requests, feature suggestions, or even crazy experimental ideas.

Fork it, play with it, break it, rebuild it โ€” and letโ€™s make this game awesome together! ๐Ÿš—๐Ÿ”ฅ


And hey, if you like it, feel free to โญ the repo. Your support truly means a lot. ๐Ÿ˜Š

๐Ÿ‘€ Canโ€™t wait to see what you come up with. Letโ€™s code something cool together!

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Prema Ananda

Love how dynamic and fast-paced this looks! ๐Ÿ”ฅ Not much of a gamer myself, but I'm actually considering teaching an AI to play this and just enjoying the spectacle ๐Ÿ˜Š. The random obstacles would make for some interesting AI training scenarios!

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Vida Khoshpey

๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿคฉwow Can you explain more to me? It must be a cool idea.๐Ÿ”ฅ Thank youuu

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Prema Ananda

AI is often trained to play games โ€” this is a popular direction in machine learning. For such tasks, there's a special Python library called OpenAI Gym. There are many video tutorials on this topic, here's one of them: youtu.be/hCeJeq8U0lo

In our case, OpenAI Gym won't be needed, but the training approach will be similar.

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Vida Khoshpey

How cool, I really didn't know, I had heard but I didn't know.๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿปthankssss a lot for sharing that

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Yalda Khoshpey

I love it๐Ÿฅฐ

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Latchu@DevOps

Just wow! Python is most demanded language when DevOps and AIOPS comes in to picture. Lovely.

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AquaScript Team

Amazing ๐ŸŒŸ, I cannot Create Game Like this ๐Ÿ˜‚, Because I don't know how code in Python ๐Ÿ˜. Your Game is Amazing ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘

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Vida Khoshpey

That's why I posted this code, you can work on it.๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿค๐Ÿป It's not that hard , help from AI too

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