Arcade Mindmap

Arcade Mindmap

1. Task requirements

   • Seld Determined Criteria
     • have a congratulatory and failure message
   • Folio challenge 2
     • Use the Arcade Library and Python to develop a simple game with walls and sprites
       • Prescribed criteria
         • Create a coherent picture related to the STEM Video Games theme
           • Theme: Construction and Destruction
         • Use multiple types of graphic functions (e.g. Circles, rectangles, lines)
         • Use multiple colours
           • CSS colour
             • e.g. arcade.color_YELLOW
           • RGB colour
             • e.g. (red value, green value, blue value)
         • Create three functions that draw something
           • Birds
             • 2 arcs (couple arcs)
           • Water
             • rectangles
           • Sky
             • rectangles
           • shark
             • polygon
         • Animate at least one aspect of the drawing
           • the sun moves horizontally
   • Folio challenge 1
     • Use the Arcade LibraryPython functions to draw a picture
       • Prescribed Criteria
         • Use FOR loops to create and position multiple items
         • Allow the user to control a player sprite using the mouse or keyboard
         • Do not allow the player sprite to go off-screen or through walls
         • Add something for the user to collect
           • collect coins
         • Keep score of how many items were collected and display the Score onscreen for the user
           • scoring system is numbered: starting at 0 with the maximum being 4

2. Available resources

   • Internet
     • QLearn
     • The python arcade libary
     • Python Arcade 2.6.17 website
   • BYOD/CYOD Device
     • Powerpoints
   • Stimulus
   • Thonny
   • Arcade
   • Teacher
     • feedback sheet
   • existing solutions
     • atari breakout
     • square game

3. Constraints and limitataions

   • sharing resources
   • timeframe/ dealine
   • can only use arcade in thonny
   • developer problem
     • absent for 2 weeks
     • coding environment
     • never done python arcade coding
     • hard to manage time among other commitments

4. Coding

   • Sample codes
     • polygon
       • arcade.draw_text("draw_polygon_filled", 123, 207, arcade.color.BLACK, 9) point_list = ((150, 240), (165, 240), (180, 255), (180, 285), (165, 300), (150, 300)) arcade.draw_polygon_filled(point_list, arcade.color.SPANISH_VIOLET)
     • set background colour
       • arcade.set_background_color(arcade.color.WHITE)
     • circle
       • arcade.draw_text("draw_circle_filled", 363, 207, arcade.color.BLACK, 10) arcade.draw_circle_filled(420, 285, 18, arcade.color.GREEN)
     • start
       • arcade.start_render()
     • rectangle
       • arcade.draw_text("draw_filled_rect", 363, 3, arcade.color.BLACK, 10) arcade.draw_rectangle_filled(420, 100, 45, 65, arcade.color.BLUSH) arcade.draw_rectangle_filled(420, 160, 20, 40, arcade.color.BLUSH, 45)
     • import the arcade libary
       • import arcade
     • finish render
       • arcade.finish_render()
     • run code
       • arcade.run()