[Week 8] Object Practice and Projects

Today’s Task

1. Outline your project using the rubric below
2. Using the outline, talk about your project
3. Work on your project

Project Rubric

1. Game Title

2. Overall game goal

   • What is the player trying to accomplish

3. Objects that exist in the game

   • List all objects that you want to use

   • List all objects currently implemented

   • For each object, identify the common parts and specialized parts

     • Specify which properties are inherited and which are new

   • For each object, describe when it is drawn (it can be always drawn or conditionally drawn)

4. Interaction

   • What interaction will the user have?
   • Specifically, what keys will be used and what effect will they have

5. What is the minimal set of things you need to have to have your game working?

6. List three 1-step additions you could make

   • It has to add only 1 additional piece of complexity

Cookbooks

You should be referencing at least some of these!

• Simple PyGame cookbook

  • covers pygame examples without using classes

• PyGame with Classes cookbook

  • covers pygame using classes
  • has a lot of functionality explained!

• Python Cookbook

  • This has examples of most of Python’s syntax!

• Classes cookbook

  • This has examples of the basics of classes!

• A giant color list!

  • You can use this to get tons of colors into your game!