Welcome to Racket Candy Crush Tutorial!

In this tutorial we’re going to create a Candy Crush clone using the Racket programming language.

This tutorial is based on the PygameZero Candy Crush tutorial I wrote.

Install Racket

Download and install Racket from the official website: https://download.racket-lang.org/

Download the images

Download the tutorial images by clicking this link. You can close that page once the download finishes.

Make a directory for your game and copy all the images from the images.zip file you just downloaded into a directory called images in your game directory.

Start the tutorial

Contents:

• Intro to Racket
  • A little introduction to Racket
• Part 1
  • Creating our game world
  • Don’t forget to download the images
  • Add the candy tiles
  • From the REPL to our game code
  • Positioning the candy
  • Putting it all together
• Part 2
  • All the code
  • A grid of candy
  • Adding the cursor

Get in touch

We would love to hear how you’ve got on with this tutorial or receive any other feedback. Get in touch with the author: Eric Clack <eric@bn7.net>

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page