Re: [pygame] Standard methodology for different game screens

[René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Pablo Moleri <pmoleri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm going through a game code written in pygame, the game shows different
> screens:
> - an introduction
> - a menu
> - and then it enters to different game modes.
>
> For each of these parts there's a different pygame loop, which doesn't seem
> right.
> I would like to know if there's a standard way to use pygame in this
> scenario.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Pablo
>
>

Not really.

this is how I do it... I encapsulate my game.Game states in classes.

each has these methods:
    - handle_events(events)
    - update(elapsed_time)
    - draw(screen)
    - load()

Each of the game.Game classes can have children game.Games.  Each of
the children ones get passed in events, elapsed_time and the screen.

This way I can have my intro run, and when it's done deactivate it,
and activate another part of the game.

class Top(game.Game):
    def load(self):
        self.games.append(Intro())

Anyway... that's the basic idea.  There's lots of other ways of doing it.


cu,