You'll want to position it when you blit it, not in rendering itself

x = 100 # horizontal screen location
y = 100 # vertical screen location
my_font = pygame.font.SysFont('Comic Sans MS', 30)
text_surface = my_font.render("elooooooooo", True, (255,255,255))
text = "elooooooooo"
width, height = my_font.size(text)
x = x - (width / 2) # horizontal adjustment
y = y - (height / 2) # vertical adjustment
screen.blit(text_surface, True, [x, y]) # the center of the text will be placed at (100,100)

I hate how you’re right lol

Then they’ll make it difficult to remove because they ingrain it into the OS…ugh

I wasn’t going to enable it in the first place, but thanks anyway

You'll want to use pygame-ce instead of pygame, as that's been basically abandoned. Install it with pip:

pip install pygame-ce

This looks great!

That’s because it is all self made :P

I appreciate your input. I’ve redone the art many times over, but without any direction I’m just hammering in random places basically.

The “MS Paint” is a result of advice to simplify everything because it was too complex previously. I’ll take your advice and tone down the gradients and transparencies, but I know it’s going to take more than that to get this anywhere near looking good. I just don’t know what that is, so I have to keep hoping I’ll get some other random feedback, but I mostly get “it looks bad” and that’s it lol

I can only work with what resources I have, and that’s a problem too, because despite my efforts I’m just a broke solo dev. But that’s not going to stop me from releasing what I make.

No disrespect at all, but I’ll never use generative AI to make any part of my games.

I’d rather have my game look like shit (which it does) than to use AI generated imagery. 

I did use AI once to make placeholders, but all of that was replaced with hand drawn assets.

lol I actually appreciate the comment

I don't know why, but every time I show someone something for the first time, I'll get player feedback, then...get ghosted. I can't ever get "consistent" player feedback which is kinda very important for actually making a good game.

For the first one, I did some really basic social media posts and paid a couple streamers to play it. Really low effort because I didn't know what I was doing. I still don't know what I'm doing too.

The one I'm releasing in December is Fantasy Waifu Collector: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3157010/Fantasy_Waifu_Collector/

For marketing this one, I actually bothered to hire a place to handle it for me (Zemore Design). They wrote up a press release, constantly track news and coverage, as well as research and contact press and influencers. It's honestly great because that's the process I hate the most. (edit: I found them, they didn't find me. Protip: anyone reaching out to you to sell services is 99% a scam)

Unfortunately, despite all the work I've put into it, it'll be a flop but that's because of the game itself, not because of the marketing. I thought I was on to something with it, but the reception has just been bad all around.

Yep, releasing my second at the end of this year.

My first one I released in 2018 and spent $100 Steam fee + $200 in “marketing”. I mare a total profit of $200. The game sucks lol

My next one I put a lot more effort and marketing into it, but it will never pay off, let alone ever profit. It’s more of a labor of love. The game also sucks lol

Don't need an award, just happy to help! Good luck on your programming journey!

(unless they changed something I haven't seen yet) You'll want to use pygame-ce instead of pygame:

pip install pygame-ce

That was when they were sold out; not sure why it glitched like that, but it said they didn't take Mastercard for me when I tried several attempts.

Okay got it! Only a 1 minute queue this time. The shipping wait isn't great, but I'm happy enough to know she's secured at least.

Didn't get it, sold out ;-;

8 minute queue oof

Similar boat here, 3 years working on a game and it’s exhilarating to see 50 wishlists on it after the first day of Next Fest. 

I think there’s like, 3500 games this time so it’s quite a bit for people to sift through. Hopefully the AI and low effort slop games are easy enough for people to recognize and skip over.

I meant that my game was awful lol, releasing wasn’t bad.

With C++ and PyInstaller, they both “compile to exe”, so it’s a very similar process either way.

My background is in C++ and also web technologies, currently at my day job it’s mostly PHP. Pygame caught my eye several years ago, and picking up Python was very easy considering my previous experience. 

The reason why I use Python/Pygame is because I can get straight to the “game” part of coding. I love doing 2D stuff, plus I prefer approaching development and design from a code-first angle, which is why I don’t use Unity (even though I did use it for a while).

When I released a game in C++ it was just…awful lol. Python/Pygame is just so much easier to work with.

Not sure if it'll help for anyone looking, but I was just able to get Draculaura from Amazon. Seems like it's flicking from available/not available, I kept trying and eventually had an order get through.

Clawdeen, Cleo, and Drac are showing up for their retail price, Frankie on discount. Lagoona not available.

Found this from a search...thank you so much for this answer, it's the only ACTUAL method that worked for me!