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Basic Word State Example - Pushing Things Around

A project log for CSV TileMap Game

CircuitPython example game that reads the initial map state from a CSV file stored on the device.

foamyguyfoamyguy 11/27/2019 at 23:580 Comments

In the code.py file we draw the world based on the input coming from the CSV file which is pretty neat. We have blinka in the game that we an move around with the d-pad, also pretty neat. But beyond being allowed to walk on a tile or not we don't have any other interesting interactions or ways to change anything within the world.

Lets try to tweak it to allow blinka to change the world. In our case specifically by making it so that the robot head can be pushed around, until it gets stuck in a corner that is is.

I've added a new file code_basic_world_state.py that implements a rudimentary world state feature. Broadly speaking it allows for updating things other than the player inside the world by allowing tiles to declare a before_move function that will get called immediately before the blinka is allowed to move onto the tile. 

Now we can define a function and put some behavior inside of it. When the player moves blinka to the tile our function gets called giving us the opportunity to update something about the world (or do anything else we want really). 

In this example our function is allow_push(). It will let blinka push the robot by first checking to see if the next space in the correct direction is walkable, and then updating the robot sprite by moving it's position in one tile in that direction.

The other change with this version is that the location of blinka is determined by the 'player' in the csv file rather than hard-coded as x/y values on the screen.

As with the code.py file still this could use a bit of cleanup and some more clear commenting. I will do my best to get it done sooner rather than later but may still succumb one more time to the temptation of working on the next feature first: allowing for a maps bigger than the screen.  

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