ARealSeal/game

What Needs to be Done

• Add CSV Support
• Translate the CSV into obstacles
• Render obstacles (half works)
• Collision Detection
• Score-keeping system

How to Play

Default Controls

You can change these in the main.py file under "# configure controls"

• Left arrow to go into the left lane
• Right arrow to go into the right lane
• Space to activate

Select the corresponding lane and activate at the right time to hit a target and get points. Your score will be displayed at the end of the game.

How to Create a Level

Levels are stored in a CSV document. The first line contains the number of "frames" in the level, then how many pixels an obstacle moves in a frame, then how far spaced out each row is. Here's an example with 500 frames, moving 10 pixels a frame, with each row spaced out 50 pixels:

500,10,50

After that, each following line contains three numbers to indicate the status for the three lanes.

Code	Description
0	Blank
1	Good object that the player wants to hit

How the Program Works

1. The program sets up a Pygame window named win using pygame methods.
2. The terminal will query the user for the name of the file they want to use as the game's data using input().
3. The program uses the library csv to parse the game data file into a tuple (representing the whole file) that contains more tuples (representing each row) that contain each column.
4. The program declares int variables that specify the dimensions of the player's character. Coordinates in Pygame are relative to the top-leftmost corner of the screen.
5. The program defines functions that check for all the inputs that will be used to control the character. This is done so that it is easy to change the key layout.
6. The actual game part of the program all takes place in a giant while loop. This is done so that the game will continue until it reaches a reason to stop.
   • The program creates a boolean called run that will be checked to see if the game should continue.
   • If the program finds a reason to stop (the main one being the close button on the window being clicked), it will make run false, causing the while loop to become false.
7. The loop contains three distinct "parts:"
   • Setting the scene
     • Where should the character be?
     • What obstacles should be on the screen and where?
   • Checking the rules
     • Is there a collision between player and object?
     • Has the file ended?
     • Does the player die?
   • Drawing on the screen
     • First the background
     • Then the obstacles and character
     • pygame.display.update()
8. After the loop, the game displays the outcome of the play-through of the level.