Squirrel Game

Aim

The aim of this project is to create a game using pygame module.

Short description of package/script

• If standalone script, short description of script explaining what it achieves. The player controls a small squirrel that must hop around the screen eating smaller squirrels and avoiding larger squirrels. Each time the player’s squirrel eats a squirrel that is smaller than it, it grows larger. If the player’s squirrel gets hit by a larger squirrel larger than it, it loses a life point.

• List out the libraries imported.

  • random
  • pygame
  • sys
  • time
  • math

Setup instructions

Download the squirrel python code file.

Install the pygame module - pip install pygame

Double click the code and enjoy the game.

Workflow

• Importing the required modules
• Describing the Data Structures
• The main() Function
• The pygame.transform.flip() Function
• A More Detailed Game State than Usual
• The Usual Text Creation Code
• The “Active Area” set-up
• Keeping Track of the Location of Things in the Game World
• Starting Off with Some Grass
• The Game Loop and Checking to Disable Invulnerability
• Moving the Enemy Squirrels
• Removing the Far Away Grass and Squirrel Objects
• When Deleting Items in a List, Iterate Over the List in Reverse
• Adding New Grass and Squirrel Objects
• Camera Slack, and Moving the Camera View
• Drawing the Background, Grass, Squirrels, and Health Meter
• The Event Handling Loop
• Moving the Player, and Accounting for Bounce
• Collision Detection- Eat or Be Eaten
• The Game Over Screen and Winning
• Drawing a Graphical Health Meter
• The Same Old terminate() Function
• The Mathematics of the Sine Function
• Backwards Compatibility with Python Version 2
• The getRandomVelocity() Function
• Finding a Place to Add New Squirrels and Grass
• Creating Enemy Squirrel Data Structures
• Flipping the Squirrel Image
• Creating Grass Data Structures
• Checking if Outside the Active Area

Output

Output.mp4

Author(s)

Rammya Dharshini K

Disclaimers, if any

None