5 PM – Python Game Development – Darin

What We Did Today:

1. Made our birds wings flap by introducing a self.image_index variable to change the image from the images list
2. Added a timer to make the flapping slower
3. Tidied up our code by introducing a config.py file to hold variables used repeatedly in our code such as timers and WIDTH/HEIGHT
4. Made our birds spawn from both right and left by introducing a RIGHT and LEFT variable, where we randomly assign a bird object one of these variables to make them spawn from either the right or left of the screen

Homework:

• For your homework, make a new file called player.py, and use the player-1.png file to blit a bird in the middle of the screen
  
  You only need to initialize the player bird object inside of the bird.py __init__ method, so you don't have to create a method like create_player (I REPEAT, DO NOT CREATE A METHOD FOR THIS)
  
  However, you can use a pygame.sprite.groupSingle() for this player instead of pygame.sprite.group()

  when you are done submitting this, by Sunday night I will leave comments to your homework so you will need to update your project from the upper left, and if it asks you to merge, merge yours
  

Notes:

If you have any questions, feel free to email me at ddjapri@ayclogic.com