How to Make the classic HELICOPTER Game in Python! Complete PyGame Tutorial!

How to Make the classic HELICOPTER Game in Python! Complete PyGame Tutorial!

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LeMaster Tech
45 Video Views·Apr 23, 2025

In this great beginner Pygame project, we rebuild the classic early 2000's flash game 'HELICOPTER' in Python! This tutorial covers everything from setting up a PyGame project, generating a random board, controlling altitude by player keyboard inputs, and scoring and progressive difficulty!

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https://github.com/plemaster01/pythonHelicopter

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:19 Setting Up A PyGame Project
03:45 Randomly Generate The Initial Board
12:45 Draw the Board and the Player on Screen
19:53 Handle Player and Board Movement
33:07 Pygame Collision detection between the player and the board!
36:20 Restarting, Score Tracking and High Score Tracking!
42:45 Importing, Scaling, and Drawing a .png image into our Pygame Game!
46:07 Progressive Difficulty In our Pygame Game!
47:28 Outro and Thanks!