Having a basic understanding of programming is super helpful, but python is pretty readable if you’ve never tried programming before. I usually look up the pygame library to see what functions I can use, like making a rectangle or a filled circle. I recommend trying to follow the pattern of what a similar patch does. Copy an effect into a new folder and try tinkering with the numbers used in the new effect. For a few of the patches/modes I’ve made, like “T – Isometric Wave”, I pieced it together from code I found on forums for making games with pygame. I searched “isometric grid in pygame” and found the code I use to space out the images of cubes and squares from there. and combining that with code from existing modes, like getting an image out of a folder from one of the image modes. Over time, the small changes in the code can make some pretty neat and fun effects!