Prg2/pacman (applying design patterns)

This is part of Programming 2 2563

Overview

In this assignment, you and your friend will apply design patterns to the provided Pacman code. This version of the Pacman game is a 2-player game, where each player tries to score as many points as possible. The first Pacman is controlled by WASD keys, while the other Pacman is controlled by IJKL keys.

Understanding the current code

There are three main classes:

• PacmanGame
• Pacman
• Maze

PacmanGame

PacmanGame is the main class. It creates a Maze and 2 Pacman's. It feeds two Pacman's with user inputs. The following is its on_key_pressed method, which looks pretty ugly.

    def on_key_pressed(self, event):
        if event.char.upper() == 'A':
            self.pacman1.set_next_direction(DIR_LEFT)
        elif event.char.upper() == 'W':
            self.pacman1.set_next_direction(DIR_UP)
        elif event.char.upper() == 'S':
            self.pacman1.set_next_direction(DIR_DOWN)
        elif event.char.upper() == 'D':
            self.pacman1.set_next_direction(DIR_RIGHT)

        if event.char.upper() == 'J':
            self.pacman2.set_next_direction(DIR_LEFT)
        elif event.char.upper() == 'I':
            self.pacman2.set_next_direction(DIR_UP)
        elif event.char.upper() == 'K':
            self.pacman2.set_next_direction(DIR_DOWN)
        elif event.char.upper() == 'L':
            self.pacman2.set_next_direction(DIR_RIGHT)

Pacman

A Pacman is the key object. It works with the Maze to navigate (to avoid running into walls) and eats dots from the Maze. It also handles movement control. The Pacman would continue moving under the recent direction until it hits the walls or a new directional key is pressed. The Pacman does not change directly immediately, but it waits until it arrives at the centers of the "blocks".

Its main functionality can be understood with the following body of its update method. Note the the Pacman maintains its location as an xy co-ordinate, but it communicates with the Maze mostly with row-column positions. Therefore, it has to call maze.xy_to_rc to do the conversion. You can also see that its main logic runs inside the is_at_center if-block.

    def update(self):
        if self.maze.is_at_center(self.x, self.y):
            r, c = self.maze.xy_to_rc(self.x, self.y)

            if self.maze.has_dot_at(r, c):
                self.maze.eat_dot_at(r, c)
            
            if self.maze.is_movable_direction(r, c, self.next_direction):
                self.direction = self.next_direction
            else:
                self.direction = DIR_STILL

        self.x += PACMAN_SPEED * DIR_OFFSET[self.direction][0]
        self.y += PACMAN_SPEED * DIR_OFFSET[self.direction][1]

This game maintains two Pacman's. Since each Pacman's behavior is controlled purely inside each object, having two Pacman is not a very difficult task. (You can even have more Pacman's if you like.)