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Re: [pygame] Using sprites versus simple surfaces
The big thing about sprites is that you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Since there are already very good routines in place for handling collisions and managing groups of sprites you can spend more time coding your actual game.
Hi all
General question about using sprites in Pygame: Whats the big thing
of sprites in Pygame? To be honest I didnt use Pygame's sprite
functions yet, but except creating groups I dont see many more great
features to make my programming life easier than just using surfaces.
If sprites move are around I also have to care about the background
refresh, as far as I understand the functions. A simple collision
detection can also be done by checking overlapping rectangles. So
whats the big thing of using sprites?
Greetings
Farai