Creating a retro sunset with Pygame

Or how to decompose the big scene we imagine in tiny pieces.

One afternoon like many others, I decided to procrastinate, and instead of following my course on algebraic topology, implement a sunset scene in pygame, with a retro look. Here is the result:

final version

My inspiration was images like this one:

retro sunset shutterstock

However I wanted it to be animated, and potentially make a menu out of it. Also, there is no way that I would create high resolution images using pygame, so I went for that pixel-art look.

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