🎮 Introduction
As part of "Build Games with Amazon Q CLI," I decided to combine my creativity and coding skills to create a fun 2D Endless Runner Game using PyGame and Amazon Q CLI.
The result was so surprising A simple game that test our reflexes, With a player who run endlessly jumping over objects and score increasing!!
And the best part was? I built it just by chatting with Amazon Q CLI — an AI coding assistant that helps us create working code from natural language prompts. No chaos in setting up files and all.
Amazon Q CLI does everything for us!!
💡 Idea Behind the Game
I was always fascinated by the Chrome Dino Game and how it actually works so I decided to build a game something just like it.
I added mechanics like jumping to avoid obstacles, increasing the speed of the character after specific to increase the difficulty and make the game more surviving and adventurous.
🛠️ Tools & Tech & how I built it.
- Amazon Q CLI – AI-powered coding assistant
- Python – Programming language
- PyGame – Library to handle graphics, events, and collisions
- VS Code – Editor
- GitHub – To host the code
- Pixabay/Freesound – For free sound effects and background music
Here’s a breakdown of how I used it to build my 2D endless runner game:
Step 1: Setting Up the Environment:
To build my game, I used WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
To Install WSL as Ubuntu open Powershell as Administrator and run:
wsl --install -d Ubuntu
Step 2:🤖 Installing Amazon Q CLI
Next I installed Amazon Q CLI I did this by following the guide
📄 Installing Amazon Q for command line
Step 3:🚀 Starting Q Chat
Once Installed start the session by simply running
q chat
That's It! Now just give prompt to Amazon Q and our game is ready!!
My prompt was
"Help me create a simple 2D endless runner game using PyGame. I want a player character that can jump to avoid obstacles, a scrolling background or moving ground, and random obstacles appearing over time. When the player hits an obstacle, the game should end and display the final score. Also include basic scoring logic and key comments in the code."
Within minutes, Q generated a full Python script with:
- Player and obstacle classes
- Jump mechanics
- Game loop with score tracking
- Collision logic
- Game over condition
The game generated by Amazon Q CLI used colored rectangles initially as placeholders for the player and obstacles.
This looked so boring,so I decided to add cool asset in game to make it visually appealing and engaging along with cool sound affects.
The sound effects which I added were
- Jump sound
- Crash sound
- Background music
I took assests and sound from website like
Here's some snapshot and gameplay of my game
Welcome Screen
Player jumping to avoid an obstacle.
🎥 Watch the Game in Action
🔗 GitHub Repository
You can explore the full source code in my GitHub repo below:
👉 GitHub - Endless Runner Game using PyGame & Amazon Q CLI
Feel free to ⭐ star the repo or fork it to try your own version!
🎯 Learnings & Takeaways
Amazon Q CLI is really a very useful and cool tool for developers to build anything in minutes.
I Understood how endless runner games work—jump physics, obstacle spawning, speed scaling, and collision detection.
Learned to integrate sound effects and visuals to make the game more immersive and engaging.
Gained practical experience in using PyGame for handling graphics, events, and game loops.
Conclusion
I was a fun building a game using AmazonQ CLI and exploring game development.
It showed me how we can use AI for developemt by leaving space for creativity too..
Whether you're a beginner or experienced developer, I highly recommend giving Amazon Q CLI a try for your next creative coding idea.
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