Add a blur around the cutescare game's actor so the game is more spooky
Use images/fog.png which is a 2000x2000 black png with a transparent circle in the middle, we will use it to create "fog" around the player.
Read on https://pygame-zero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/builtins.html about how to anchor an actor so that the fog's x and y are actually at the center and not in the topleft.
Add a game level sound to make the game more fun, read in the pygame-zero docs how to loop a sound forever.
...
elf = Actor("c1")
elf.x = 520
elf.y = 420
...
fog = Actor("fog", anchor=("center","center"))
def update():
...
if not isInside:
elf.x = 520
elf.y = 420
# move the fog's center to where the elf is
# so the elf is always in the center of the fog
fog.x = elf.x
fog.y = elf.y
...
sounds.level.play(-1)
def draw():
screen.clear()
for r in data:
screen.draw.rect(r, (255,255,255))
elf.draw()
fog.draw()
...
pgzrun.go()
Make a better maze
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data = [
Rect(0,0,100,200),
Rect(20,200, 300, 30),
Rect(267,226, 30, 500),
Rect(408,678, 20, 200),
Rect(23,659, 800, 20),
Rect(429,101, 30, 500),
Rect(299,356, 800, 20)
]
...
Watch "The Computer Science Iceberg Explained (Part 1)" by Quabl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H565avw-ufk
Watch "What Are Pointers? (C++)" by javidx9 again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iChalAKXffs
Add multiple levels in your cutescare game, now you have only one level:
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data = [
Rect(0,0,100,200),
Rect(20,200, 300, 30),
Rect(267,226, 30, 500),
Rect(408,678, 20, 200),
Rect(23,659, 800, 20),
Rect(429,101, 30, 500),
Rect(299,356, 800, 20)
]
...
To make the game more interesting, add 2 more levels. First think a bit on your own how to do it then come back to the book.
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level1 = [
Rect(0,0,100,200),
Rect(20,200, 300, 30),
Rect(267,226, 30, 500),
...
]
level2 = [
Rect(267,226, 30, 500),
...
]
level3 = [
Rect(267,226, 30, 500),
...
]
current_level = level1
def update():
global current_level
if current_level == level1 and elf.x > 700 and elf.y > 700:
current_level = level3
def draw():
....
for d in current_level:
...
...
This pattern of having a 'current' thing is active from possible options is extremely common, you can see it everywhere in all kinds of program.
For example check out Google Chrome's tab bar, you have a current tab, when you click on some other one it changes it. As an exercise try to spot this pattern in the apps you use on your phone or computer.
Take a piece of paper and list all the apps installed on yout phone, then write down next to each one how they make money out of you.
| app | how it makes money |
|---|---|
| facebook using who you talk to and how often to show you more relevant ads | |
| ads | |
| duolingo | ads / subscription |
| spotify | ads / subscription |
| human resource machine | paid 7$ |
| ... | ... |
Watch The Fetch-Execute Cycle: What's Your Computer Actually Doing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5JC9Ve1sfI
Watch it 3 times and write it down.