PyGame Xmas Special
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1 Objectives
Developing Programming Development learning strand, specifically:
- Understanding and using loops in a game development
- Learning using if statements (conditionals) to branch instructions in a solution
- Learning what computers events are and how they are used in game development
- Understanding how sequences of instructions are put together logically in solving a given problem
2 The game: Santa picks up moving presents
The Game Play
- Santa's sleigh can move up and down along the left side a game screen
- Santa's move is controlled by UP and DOWN arrow keys
- A present is randomly placed at the right edge of the screen
- The present is moving at an initial speed towards the left of the screen
- When Santa collides with the present, the present disappears and Santa gets one point
- Another present appears at the right edge, but with increased speed
- The game is over when Santa misses a present
The Game Skeleton Code and Assets
- Right click and choose save as to download the skeleton code to your home drive, computer science folder
- Right click and choose save as to download the Santa sleigh image to the same place
- Right click and choose save as to download the present image to the same place
- After you have downloaded the above three files to the same location, open the python skeleton code by right click and choose to edit with IDLE.
- Follow the instructions on each task to complete the game. Your completed game should look like this:
