thinkful-ei26/octo-delivery-service

🐙 OctoGun: Delivery Service 🐙 |

You are a gunslinger octopus whose job is to deliver packages. You must successfully navigate the seafloor, evading all sharks and eels to collect and deliver packages to your customers.

YouTube demo

To-do List:

• render octo & octo moving()
• octo has projectiles
• add enemy shark: has health bar, is moving correct direction
• add packages: 1. create package class, 2. render
• fix bug on shark collision
• add more sharks
• background music
• octo health render, decrease when touching shark
• octo & package collision logic
• score bug
• restart & game over screens
• add package score when octo collides
• SFX
• bug on loading screen
• octo & squid collision
• randomize squid position & velocity
• bug on x close button & game over screen, pinpointed to self.playing & self.running vars
• render G.O. screen on player kill
• fix bug: octo still shooting when not visible

Proof of Concept:

• ✅ Render octopus with game controls
• ✅ Detect collisions and have feedback in the game
• ✅ Game success & game over scenario

Tech Personal Goals:

• Know how to manage state, controls, & collision using the PyGame physics engine
• Use scenes if possible
• Use open-source sprites if possible or create one. Use static images for now.

Creativity Goals

• Make sure to tie in Octopus-related themes:
  • 8 lives
  • 8 packages to return
• Produce some images, possibly a sprite sheet

Game Controls (thus far)

• ESC quit game
• SPACEBAR shoot ink bullets
• UP move octopus up
• DOWN move octopus down
• LEFT move octopus left
• RIGHT move octopus right

Concept Art

How to get started?

Step 1: Set-up environment

My environment is already optimized for MacOS and VS Code. Here's how I got started:

• Check to see if you have Python already installed via command Python3 --version
• If it returns something like Python 3.7.0 then you're good. You can update your current version if you like.
• Run which python to check that the path is something like /usr/local/bin/python
• If you don't have Python installed a.k.a. nothing returned or there was an error when you typed in Python3 --version then you can enter brew install python3
• If you are using macOS Mojave, there's a known bug between pygame and Mojave. I recommend not installing via brew install python3 and using this instructions instead:

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-370/ for python 3.7.0 and install

verify: python3 --version should be 3.7.0

then: pip3 install pygame (installed 1.9.4)

Then use the command python3 file_url to initiate. Ex: python3 /Users/trisha/projects/ods/main.py.

Step 2: Optimize environment

Install extensions on VS Code. This is mainly:

• Python
• Python Extension (by Don Jayamanne)
• Code Runner (run a script file via CTRL + ALT + N)
• Pylinter

Step 3: Study Python Fundamentals (Optional)

• Follow along this awesome free book by Allen D. Downey Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Step 4: Open the game

1. Clone this repo: OctoGun Repo or git clone https://github.com/thinkful-ei26/octo-delivery-service.git
2. Open a new terminal shell and then cd into a directory that you want to clone the repo in
3. Install pygame python3 -m pip3 install -U pygame --user
4. Finally, enter the command python3 main.py and you will see a blue window prompting you to press any key.
5. Game controls are:

• Arrow keys to move
• ESC to quit the game
• Spacebar to shoot

Note: I apologize if the graphics look like a 5-year old drew it. I drew most of the assets using MS paint. 😂 I also used BFXR for the sound effects. The background music is from an open source website OrangeFreeSounds.

Version 2

• [] create new stage
• [] data/high score persistence
• [] deploy as a Stand Alone App

Bug 🪲

• [] close button needs to be pressed twice to exit program, but a player can just press ESC key to quit the GUI