If we want to understand the platform game Climber, we better destructurate it, starting from the map drawing. This game uses the pygame libraries and started from an example of a tutorial by dafluffypotato. Then I changed many stuffs in the code. Let’s see what.
The map is made using characters that are then substituted by an image. The character is the “w” that correspond to some bricks of a wall.
This is the map in characters and the actual map one next to another.
You can see how the first resemble the second, so it is pretty easy to create it, when you got just one tile, of course. As you add more tiles, it would become more hard, and we should find an alternative method, maybe.
I used a multiline string for the scheme of the map, so that is very easy to see how the map will be. To use a multiline string, simply use “”” at the start and “”” at the end (or ”’ and ”’). Then I use splitlines so that very line becomes a string included in a list of string.
I can now iterate the list with the map divided in single line string to show it.
for line in map1:
print(line)
>>> [output]:
wwwww www www ww ww ww
w w w
w w
w wwwwww wwwww www
www w w w
w w w w
w wwwww wwwwwww ww
w wwwwww w w w
w w w www wwww w
w w w w w
w wwwwww www wwww w w
w w ww w w
w w
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
from pygame.locals import *
import pygame
import glob
map1 ="""
wwwww www www ww ww ww
w w w
w w
w wwwwww wwwww www
www w w w
w w w w
w wwwww wwwwwww ww
w wwwwww w w w
w w w www wwww w
w w w w w
w wwwwww www wwww w w
w w ww w w
w w
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"""
def init_display():
global screen, tile
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((462, 256))
tile = pygame.image.load("imgs\\tiles\\wall.png")
def tiles(map1):
global tile
for y, line in enumerate(map1):
for x, c in enumerate(line):
if c == "w":
screen.blit(tile, (x * 16, y * 16))
map1 = map1.splitlines()
pygame.init()
init_display()
loop = 1
while loop:
# screen.fill((0, 0, 0))
tiles(map1)
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
loop = 0
pygame.display.update()
pygame.quit()
Map to explain the code
This is the output
Video explanation of how to make a map in Pygame
Pygame's Platform Game
