Re: [pygame] Newbie needs help, what's the most efficient (or easiest) way to do this?

[Charles Joseph Christie II <sonicbhoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, you would only move if you held the "TAB" button, else you'd
type.

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:03:34 +1300
Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Charles Christie wrote:
> > The game would be about typing english words as fast as possible to
> > damage the boss, while moving around the bullet pattern it fires at
> > you.
> > 
> > The thing is that moving would be mapped, on a qwerty keyboard:
> > WASD, IKJL, and the up, 5, left and right buttons on a numpad.
> 
> There's an interesting idea in there somewhere. Suppose
> movement was *only* done using alphabetic keys. Then the
> words you typed would have the side effect of moving you
> around in various ways. To allow you some freedom of
> movement, you'd have a set of words to choose from at any
> moment. The game would then be to choose which word to
> type next to move you in the direction you want to go...
> 
> --
> Greg