Transparent Always-on-Top Pygame Animation

A fullscreen Pygame window with a transparent background, always-on-top behavior, and smooth sprite animation.

Features

• Transparent background (color key: #FF0080)
• Always stays on top
• Fullscreen, borderless window
• Continuous sprite animation
• Press Esc to exit

Setup

Install required libraries:

pip install pygame pywin32

Place your sprite images in a sprites/ folder:

project/
├── main.py
└── sprites/
    ├── attack_1.png
    ├── attack_2.png
    ├── attack_3.png
    ├── ...
    └── attack_10.png

Run

python main.py

Notes

• The background color (255, 0, 128) is treated as transparent. Avoid using it in your sprite images.

• If you want a different background color for transparency, change both BG_COLOR in code and the SetLayeredWindowAttributes color.

• You can modify the scale_factor parameter when creating the Player to make the sprite bigger or smaller.