This is the code for the game I've been working on.
Adding the textcode() function makes my entire game run very slow.
What is the problem? I'm almost certain that there is no memory bottleneck, since memory usage is ~ 50% when running this program.
import pygame
import random
import math
# for initialising pygame (req for every pygame app)
pygame.init()
# making the basic window (dimensions must be written inside a tuple )
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((500, 500))
# background
background = pygame.image.load('C:/Users/aryan/Downloads/background.jpg')
# load and set the logo
logo = pygame.image.load('C:/Users/aryan/Downloads/bp.png') # directory of logo
pygame.display.set_icon(logo)
pygame.display.set_caption("space wars") # program name
# define a variable to control the main loop
running = True
# player
playerimg = pygame.image.load('C:/Users/aryan/Downloads/spaceship.png')
playerX = 218 # x and y coordinates of image
playerY = 350
playerxchange = 0 # this will be the change in movement in x direction of our image
playerychange = 0 # this will be the change in movement in y direction of our image
def player(x, y):
screen.blit(playerimg, (x, y)) # blit draws our image on the surface(basically the background)
# syntax for blit(imagename, (xcoordinate,ycoordinate))
# enemy
enemyimg = pygame.image.load('C:/Users/aryan/Downloads/enemy.png')
enemyX = random.randint(0, 476)
enemyY = random.randint(0, 30)
enemyxchange = 0.2
enemyychange = 40
# game over
overimg = pygame.image.load('C:/Users/aryan/Downloads/gameover.png')
# bullet
bulletimg = pygame.image.load('C:/Users/aryan/Downloads/bullet.png')
bulletX = 0
bulletY = 350
bulletxchange = 0
bulletychange = 1
bullet_state = "ready" # "ready" you cant see bullet on screen
# "fire" you can see bullet firing
bullets = [] # bullets is a list that contains the coordinates of every bullet
score = 0
def enemy(x, y):
screen.blit(enemyimg, (x, y)) # blit draws our image on the surface(basically the background)
# syntax for blit(imagename, (xcoordinate,ycoordinate))
def firebullet(x, y):
global bullet_state
bullet_state = "ready"
bullets.append([x + 12, y + 6]) # Creating a new bullet
def iscollision(enemyX, enemyY, bulletX, bulletY):
distance = math.sqrt(math.pow(enemyX-bulletX, 2)+ math.pow(enemyY-bulletY,2)) # distance formula
if distance <= 20:
return True
else:
return False
def TextScore(game):
text = pygame.font.SysFont(None, 30)
text2 = text.render("Your Score is: " + str(game), True, (37, 97, 188))
screen.blit(text2, (10, 45))
# main loop
while running:
screen.fill((120, 120, 120)) # in order (r, g, b) . (0, 0, 0) is black (255, 0, 0) is red...
screen.blit(background, (0, 0))
# event handling, gets all event from the event queue
for event in pygame.event.get():
# only do something if the event is of type QUIT
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
# change the value to False, to exit the main loop
running = False
# checking keystroke
if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
if event.key == pygame.K_RIGHT:
playerxchange += 0.3 # change in movement will be 0.2 towards the right
if event.key == pygame.K_LEFT:
playerxchange -= 0.3 # change in movement will be 0.2 towards the right
if event.key == pygame.K_UP:
playerychange -= 0.3
if event.key == pygame.K_DOWN:
playerychange += 0.3
if event.key == pygame.K_SPACE:
bullet_state = "fire"
firebullet(playerX, playerY)
if event.type == pygame.KEYUP:
if event.key == pygame.K_LEFT or event.key == pygame.K_RIGHT or event.key == pygame.K_DOWN or event.key == pygame.K_UP:
playerxchange = 0
playerychange = 0
playerY += playerychange
playerX += playerxchange # the value of playerx changes by +- 0.1 depending on keystroke
if playerX <= -64: # this teleports the spaceship from left end to right end
playerX = 564
elif playerX >= 564: # this teleports spaceship from right end to left
playerX = -64
if playerY >= 436: # this prevents spaceship from leaving vertically
playerY = 436
if playerY <= 0:
playerY = 0
# enemy movement
enemyX += enemyxchange
if enemyY >= 476:
enemyY = 476
enemyYchange = 0
enemyXchange = 0
if enemyX <= 0:
enemyxchange = 0.2
enemyY += enemyychange
elif enemyX >= 465:
enemyxchange = -0.2
enemyY += enemyychange
# bullet movement
if bullet_state == "fire":
firebullet(playerX, playerY)
for bullet in bullets:
screen.blit(bulletimg, (bullet[0], bullet[1])) # Print a bullet
bullet[0] -= bulletxchange # Updates its position
bullet[1] -= bulletychange
if bullet[1] < 0:
bullets.remove(bullet)
# collision
for bullet in bullets: # Use a for-loop to iterate through all the bullets in the list.
collision = iscollision(enemyX, enemyY, bullet[0], bullet[1])
if collision: # Test if a single bullet collides with the enemy inside the loop.
score += 1
print(score)
bullets.remove(bullet) # Remove the bullet from the list when it collides with the enemy.
enemyX = random.randint(0, 476) # if collision takes place, alien respawns
enemyY = random.randint(0, 30)
TextScore(score)
player(playerX, playerY) # player method is called AFTER screen.fill otherwise the screen will fill after image has been blitted
enemy(enemyX, enemyY)
pygame.display.update() # necessary for events to keep updating
Adding the textcode() function makes my entire game run very slow.
What is the problem? I'm almost certain that there is no memory bottleneck, since memory usage is ~ 50% when running this program.
