Steps

1. Create more general underlying classes
2. Create util.py file
3. Create bash cat script
4. Turn the button_down fix into a function

Update 1: 18/12/24

Modularized code to have more subfolders:

engine: contains files that control underlying functionality of the game, eg state, high scores, level

entities: create entities that live in the game, eg asteroids, asteroid_list, bullet, spaceship, window

utils: contains standalone functions useful to other files for modularization

data: contains high_scores.json

main.py: main game loop

Todo:

1. Remove tight coupling in all util files

2. Write game_state.py: needs to contain everything necessary for maintaining the game state, displaying things too?

3. use ABC for every single type of thing

Update 2: 28/12/24

Significantly improved overall structure, modularized, simplified, etc.

graphics: contains all graphics-related implementation, eg animations, hud, title, game_over

entities: improved ABC structure of each entity. Included a should_despawn method.

asteroid.py: added self.polygon attribute to init RandomPolygon object to modularize display

spaceship.py: also added polygon attribute. This will help with displaying lives in corner.

utils: utils are coming along swimmingly

geometry.py: Implemented shape classes for asteroid and spaceeship.

pygame_helpers.py: Implemented detecting one event when a key is pressed by instantiating an object for the key in question.

Steps

1. Asteroid destruction sequence (splitting) DONE
2. Spaceship destruction sequence
3. Finish updating spaceship.py
4. Spaceship rocket
5. Spaceship invincibility
6. game_over screen and play again ability
7. Increasing difficulty
8. Pause functionality
9. Animations
10. Sounds
11. Automated spaceships
12. Make asteroids look better
13. Add sigmoidal rotation function

Next

Resolve bug of spaceship destroy animation: I believe it is due to passing reference (list) instead of copy (immutable tuple)

Also need to have Spaceship not display during the duration of the spaceship destruction sequence. Could do this by editing Spaceship.destroy(), but that seems like a bad solution, since then have to keep track of both timers simultaneously and they need to be synced. Possible, but is there a better solution?

Next

1. Base rotation off of spaceship speed, have them not all always rotate same direction.
2. Do spaceship rocket. DONE
3. All other stuff
4. clean up display.py

Next

1. Make game over screen and play again

Bugs discovered:

1. No time for destruction animation - FIXED
2. Spaceship added everytime restart, need to fix this either in start_game() only init-ing if necessary - FIXED
3. Displays are in wrong vertical position, need to be based off scrnsize - FIXED
4. Not displaying GAME OVER or CLICK TO PLAY - FIXED
5. High scores are not real - FIXED

New Features to add:

1. leveling system
2. sounds
3. automated spaceships
4. improve particle movement
5. improve asteroids shapes THEN DONE.

Difficulties encountered:

Inputting initials is much harder than i originally anticipated. will need to likely have another state for that, can't force it into the game_over state.

Add 3 new states: 'game_over', 'new_high_score', 'game_over_menu', (change name of 'menu' to 'title_menu')

• 'game_over': immediately after the spaceship dies, display only the GAME OVER text in middle of screen
• 'game_over_menu': after timer runs out, transition from 'game_over' to 'game_over_menu', display the hud and high scores (assuming no new high score)
• new_high_score: after game_over timer runs out, if new high score is true, display the text giving the player directions, their high score and type, and each of their initials input so far. transition out of this state when the length of the initials list is equal to 3. and then wipe the initials list after transitioning out of the state into the 'game_over_menu' state, first storing the new high score. ONLY NOW is the high score calculated.

Updates: 1/9/25

• Enemy spaceships come in 2 sized: one small (fast, worth more points), one large (slow, worth less points). They have random chance to move in a 45 degree angle from their trajectory. They can collide with the user sship, user bullets, and other asteroids. Not sure if they can collide with enemy sships, enemy bullets.
• Added realistic speed component to firing bullets using dot product: if fire in same direction, add sship speed from bullet speed; if fire in opposite direction, subtract sship speed from bullet speed
• Added that when level finished, waits until all objects gone before spawning new objects.

Small bug:

• Would prefer if the new level timer didn't actually start until all objects have left screen.
  • That would require either restructuring the time_manager logic.
  • One way would be to add a similar thing like "Paused" and subtract from the timer. That would be really annoying.
  • Would be nice if could just change a class variable and then all timers (of a certain type) would stop increasing.
  • Would need to ensure that other timers don't also pause (eg invincibility timer), thus could make a Child class for all the spawning, level, sound counters. Then have something similar to paused.

TODO:

1. Add specifications
2. Add more randomness in enemy bullet firing, asteroid splitting direction
3. Fix Small Bug
4. Compile for Mac
5. Compile for website
6. Build website, make clickable button to play game