Ren’Py Minigames 101

Are you interested in game development and want to create engaging 2D minigames? Are you a Ren’Py developer looking to implement minigames in your projects? This is the course for you.

This course, Ren’Py Minigames 101, covers all the fundamentals you need to build your own minigame in Ren’Py.

We will develop a Rhythm Game from scratch and in this process, you will learn all the necessary Ren’Py and Python skills for working with Ren’Py’s Creator–Defined Displayables.

In each lecture, we will make incremental changes to our code, and, at the end of every lecture, we will have a runnable Ren’Py project that shows tangible progress towards the final completed project.

Some topics that we will cover:

Ren’Py Screens

Ren’Py Creator–Defined Displayables

Rendering the game view

Implementing player controls with PyGame

Timing the music notes to any song with Python packages like Aubio and Librosa

Enhancing player experience with a Heads–Up Display (HUD) and other visual cues

Designing bonus features for the Rhythm Game

Some experience with Ren’Py, Python, and programming is strongly recommended. This course assumes Python knowledge including data structures (list, dictionaries), functions, and classes (Object–Oriented Programming).

If you need to brush up on your Python skills, check out my tailored Python for Ren’Py course on Udemy.