Adding a Title Screen

Most, if not all, games have some form of title screen. This is basically just a screen that shows up when you start the game. There may be a few options to select from before starting the game as well. To keep things simple, we'll simply add a screen that just says "PACMAN" at the top. Then when we press the "Return" key on the keyboard the Pacman game will start. If/when we lose all of our lives in the game, then we'll automatically be returned to the title screen. We can then press the "Return" key again to have another go, or just quit the game.

In the next section we'll add a button that we can press instead of pressing the "Return" key.

Everything we'll be doing in this section will be in the run.py file. First of all, you may notice that the code is not highlighted like in the previous code snippets. That's because it seems that I have lost the program that I wrote to wrap up my code in all of these "span" tags in order to apply the CSS to them. If I find it then I'll update, but at this point in time I'm not going to rewrite that. There's probably a simpler way to do this.

Anyways, we will only have 2 screens, the title screen and the game screen. So we're going to create a variable called "title_screen" and set it to True. That way the rest of our code will know what to display based on this variable.

Next we're calling a method we have not created as of yet. We'll do that next.

Finally, we'll create the title text that we want to appear at the top. Be aware, that the position values here are "hard-coded". You can place the title wherever you want on the screen by modifying the last two numbers since they represent that x and y positions respectively. I'm just using these values because it looks good enough for demo purposes.

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Adding a Title Screen

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