• A more advanced version of Pygame Terminal

In Pygame Terminal we discussed a very basic kind of game terminal. This can be used to create many kinds of games such as the Robots game.

However, we may like to increase the functionality of this framework by adding a few quality of life features.

The first major change is in the Game class draw loop. The first part of the Game class now looks like this:

class Game:
    def __init__(self, window):
        self.window = window
        self.screen = window.screen
        self.font = window.font
        self.logo = window.logo

        # Game Data
        self.FPS = 60
        self.clock = pygame.time.Clock()

        self.maze = Maze(19, 14, 30, 30)
        self.maze.set_wall(3,3, "south", False)
        self.maze.cwidth = 40
        self.maze.cheight = 40

    def start(self):
        while True:
            self.checkEvents()
            self.update()
            self.draw()
            self.clock.tick(self.FPS)

    def update(self):
        pass

    def draw(self):
        self.screen.fill((0, 0, 0))  # Clear the screen.
        self.drawText(0, 2, "it works!", "gray")
        pygame.display.flip()  # update the display.
        
    def quit(self):
        quit()
        exit()

As you can see we have moved to using self.clock.tick(self.FPS), and have split the check events and update loops. We will also add a quit function. The quit function will have more importance later, such as if we need to save game state when exiting.