Status: game state/end of game/levels#

Status/Score#

  • Often you want to show the current score or something similar.

For this the miniworldmaker offers you special tokens, e.g. Text or Number tokens.

Create a text#

You can create a text like this:

text = miniworldmaker.Text(position, string)

  • position is a tuple with the upper left corner of the text

  • string is a text that will be displayed.

On a pixelboard a text is scaled automatically. On a tiledboard it will be displayed completely inside a tile (and is probably too small for longer texts).

Example:#

from miniworldmaker import *

board = PixelBoard(400,400)
hello_world = Text((100,100), "Hello world!")

board.run()
Texts

Modify a text#

You can change the text at any time using the text attribute.

The following program always displays the last pressed button:

from miniworldmaker import *

board = PixelBoard(400,400)
key = Text((100,100), "")

@key.register
def on_key_down(self, key):
    print(key)
    self.text = key[0]

board.run()
Texts and Events

Numbers#

You can display numbers on the screen with number tokens.

This works very similar to text. The following program for example every time a key is pressed the displayed number is increased by 1:

from miniworldmaker import *

board = PixelBoard(400,400)
show_number = Number((100,100), 1)

@show_number.register
def on_key_down(self, key):
    n = self.get_number()
    self.set_number(n + 1)

board.run()

End of game / level change#

The following are typical end-of-game/level change actions:

  • Clear the playing field

  • Stop the game field.

The following commands are available for this:

  • board.stop(): Stops the game board. No more actions will be executed and no events are queried.

  • board.start(): This cancels a stop command.

  • board.is_running: With this variable you can query the status of the board. of the board.

  • board.clear(): This function removes all pieces from the board.

  • board.reset(): The function clears the current board and creates a new board creates a new board with all the pieces as they were in [board.on_setup()]{.title-ref}.