How to Create a Pygame Menu Selection

Submitted by razormist on Saturday, January 9, 2021 - 12:03.

In this tutorial we will create a Simple Main Menu Selection. Pygame is a Free and Open Source python programming language framework for making game applications. It is highly portable and runs on nearly every platform and operating system. It is highly recommended for beginners to learn Pygame when making basic games.

So let's now do the coding...

Getting Started

First you will have to download & install the Python IDLE's, here's the link for the Integrated Development And Learning Environment for Python https://www.python.org/downloads/.

After Python IDLE's is installed, open the command prompt then type "python -m pip install pygame", and hit enter.

Importing Modules

After setting up the installation, run the IDLE and click the file and then the new file. After that, a new window will appear containing a black file this will be the text editor for the python.

Then copy the code that I provided below and paste it inside the IDLE text editor

import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
import os

Writing The Variables

We will assign the certain variables that we will need to declare later in the main loop. To do that just kindly write this code inside your text editor.

# Game Initialization
pygame.init()
 
# Center the Game Application
os.environ['SDL_VIDEO_CENTERED'] = '1'
 
# Game Resolution
screen_width=800
screen_height=600
screen=pygame.display.set_mode((screen_width, screen_height))
 
# Text Renderer
def text_format(message, textFont, textSize, textColor):
    newFont=pygame.font.Font(textFont, textSize)
    newText=newFont.render(message, 0, textColor)
 
    return newText
 
 
# Colors
white=(255, 255, 255)
black=(0, 0, 0)
gray=(50, 50, 50)
red=(255, 0, 0)
green=(0, 255, 0)
blue=(0, 0, 255)
yellow=(255, 255, 0)
 
# Game Fonts
font = "Retro.ttf"
 
 
# Game Framerate
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
FPS=30

Main Function

This is the Main Code for the Pygame application. The code contains several input functions that will allow the object to move and render it to the application. To do that just write this code inside the IDLE text editor.

# Main Menu
def main_menu():
 
    menu=True
    selected="start"
 
    while menu:
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type==pygame.QUIT:
                pygame.quit()
                quit()
            if event.type==pygame.KEYDOWN:
                if event.key==pygame.K_UP:
                    selected="start"
                elif event.key==pygame.K_DOWN:
                    selected="quit"
                if event.key==pygame.K_RETURN:
                    if selected=="start":
                        print("Start")
                    if selected=="quit":
                        pygame.quit()
                        quit()
 
        # Main Menu UI
        screen.fill(blue)
        title=text_format("Sourcecodester", font, 90, yellow)
        if selected=="start":
            text_start=text_format("START", font, 75, white)
        else:
            text_start = text_format("START", font, 75, black)
        if selected=="quit":
            text_quit=text_format("QUIT", font, 75, white)
        else:
            text_quit = text_format("QUIT", font, 75, black)
 
        title_rect=title.get_rect()
        start_rect=text_start.get_rect()
        quit_rect=text_quit.get_rect()
 
        # Main Menu Text
        screen.blit(title, (screen_width/2 - (title_rect[2]/2), 80))
        screen.blit(text_start, (screen_width/2 - (start_rect[2]/2), 300))
        screen.blit(text_quit, (screen_width/2 - (quit_rect[2]/2), 360))
        pygame.display.update()
        clock.tick(FPS)
        pygame.display.set_caption("Python - Pygame Simple Main Menu Selection")

Initializing The Game

This is the Initialization code, this will run the entire code when the application starts. It will render the Main Loop to display the specific methods. To do that just write this code inside the IDLE text editor.

#Initialize the Game
main_menu()
pygame.quit()
quit()

DEMO

There you have it we successfully created a Simple Main Menu Selection using Pygame. I hope that this simple tutorial helps you to what you are looking for and enhance your programming capabilities. For more updates and tutorials just kindly visit this site.

Enjoy Coding!!