figure - an example of complete scenewith sprites drawn on top of background the sprite images are drawn on top of background notice that you can flip the sprite image horizontally so that the sprites are facing the other way you can draw the same sprite image multiple times on the same window you can also resize the sprites to be larger or smaller than the original sprite image the background image can be considered one large sprite the next program will demonstrate how to play sounds and draw sprites using pygame sound and image files sprites are stored in image files on your computer there are several different image formats that pygame can use you can tell what format an image file uses by looking at the end of the file name (after the last periodthis is called the file extension for examplethe file player png is in the png format the image formats pygame supports include bmppngjpgand gif you can download images from your web browser on most web browsersyou have to rightclick on the image in the web page and select save from the menu that appears remember where on the hard drive you saved the image file copy this downloaded image file into the same folder as you python program' py file you can also create your own images with drawing program like ms paint or tux paint the sound file formats that pygame supports are midwavand mp you can download sound effects from the internet just like image files they must be in one of these three formats if post questions to