Re: [pygame] My first game; the design of pacman

[Phil Hassey <philhassey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kai,
 
 You might want to check out:
 http://www.imitationpickles.org/pgu/ -- my game & gui library, quite good for NES-level games such as pac-man, etc.
 
 http://www.imitationpickles.org/tmp/rustic.tgz -- I haven't released it yet (probably won't until end of this year) but it includes an implementation of pac-man.  Unfortunately, the code is not exactly commented, but if you study the pgu/examples/tilevid*.py quite a bit first, reading the pacman code might be fairly readable (they are written in the same style.  The examples explain how & why I do some things.)
 
 Since this is your first game, I'd actually suggest something other than pac-man.  Pac-man is a fairly difficult game to put together.  Some easier ones to try would be "tron" or "nibbles"  .. or even "tetris" .  
 
 Hope that helps!
 Phil

Kai Kuehne <kai.kuehne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Hello everyone.
>
> I'm planning to make a remake of the game pacman
> in python and pygame. It exists very often,
> sure, but it's just fun.
>
> This is my first game so I have several
> design problems.
>
> First of all, i have map files.
> A map looks something like this:
>
> ####################
> #                           #
> #                            #
> #   P                       #
> #                           #
> #               G             #
> ####################
>
> Where 'P' is the Pacman... and so on.
> Now I go and read the mapfile into my program
> and replace the specific characters with real
> objects ("Pacman" in this case). Now I wanted
> to add to every object (like Ghost, or whatever)
> update and draw methods so that they can draw
> "themselves" onto the screen. Or would it be better
> to get all the objects and blitting them onto the
> screen, after I
>  have moved them?
>
> I'm a bit confused whether there should be a
> "Master class" which controls everything or if
> every object should take care only about itself.
>
> I decline to use the second version... is this
> "the right way" or what would you make *different*?
>
> Second question:
> When all the objects ("Wall", "Nothing", "Pacman" and so on) are all
> in my list... what's when Pacman hits a Ghost? I know, I should use
> a second list. And in this "background" list, there should lie all the
> objects, that *don't* move. Right?
>
> My english is not very good, so, if you didn't
> understand something.. please ask for it.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Kai

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