Month: February 2023

The movement was very uncooperative. I figured out the rectangle and I was able to make it work. After that I started with the actual movement but I kept getting an error for the movement. After quite a long time I found that I was missing a few symbols to make it work. After that the movement was okay but then the draw window part wasn’t working. It didn’t show any error but whenever I started the game there wouldn’t be any background or UFO. I thought the movement might have somehow messed it up so I got rid of it to test if that was what was causing it to not show up but it still wasn’t working. I decided to go through the original video. I started watching it from the start in order to make sure I’m not missing anything and just altered a few things for my game. I made it to the movement part and it and the draw window are working fine now.

It was much harder than I expected to get the sprites into my game. I made them quite easily but I needed to email them to myself to access them on the raspberry pi. I added them into my code and tried to draw them on the surface but it wasn’t working. I thought it might be just one of the sprites but I tried them all and none of them worked. Then, after more time than I would have liked, I realized I was missing a piece of code to actually draw them. When I figured that out it worked but they had a white background which blocked the actual background. In order to fix it I put them in photoshop and deleted all the white around them so they would have a transparent background. Then I had to email the new versions to my raspberry pi and put them into my game.

After that I started on the movement. In order to make movement work you have to make an invisible rectangle to represent the character then move that and make it so the character moves with it. I haven’t had time to figure out why but the rectangle isn’t working. Tonight I am going to work on and hopefully figure out why the rectangle isn’t working and then I’ll finish the movement and make the level throughout the week. I also worked on the script for my final presentation.

Over the weekend I looked at coderbyte but it would not let me sign in for whatever reason and I found found out it’s extremely expensive. I have been trying to look for other potential options but it’s hard to find any python game developers. I don’t know if I’ll have enough time to find a developer but I’ll look during class time and I’ll work on my coding during the week.