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    Coding Zombie Runner with Python

    May 04, 2021 5 minutes
    Credit: https://raytomely.itch.io/run-and-gun

    For the latest instalment in this series of retro game development in Python, we’re going to create a zombie run ‘n’ gun game!

    The zombie apocalypse genre has been prevalent in media for some time. Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead and The Last Of Us are all incredibly successful video games in the genre. Paired with a run ‘n’ gun action video game, itself a sub-genre of the shoot ‘em up, the retro zombie runner features a player character running around a two-dimensional game world, avoiding contact with and shooting at enemy zombies for as long as possible in order to score points.

    Traditional shooters of this type in the 1970s would have a fixed player character and a game world that would move around them. In the 1980s we saw

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