Comp151-H Computer Project 3

Due: March 28th at 11:59pm (Now due March 30th at 1:50pm due to closed campus on 3/21)

Summary: Once upon a time centipede was a big deal in video games. Then it was on watches and calculators - then it was a capstone project for CS1, now with python it is just another project. We'll do a speed version though because I need to grade them in a reasonable amount of time.

Details:

Write a centipede type game with the following requirements

Start your "centipede" with 4 segments. use images for the segments. Your centipede can be an old fashioned centipede, or a train (an approach popular in children's games these days.) Or a conga line or anything (appropriate) that you want.
Start with 4 randomly places "power ups" on the board. Each time the 'centipede' goes over a powerup half of the segments disappear from the back of the centipede.
The centipede should be controlled by the keyboard. It should be able to move up down left or right.

when the player changes direction, each segment must continue to move in the previous direction till they reach the point that the user changed direction - at that point the segment changes directions.

Every 4 seconds a new segment should appear at the back of the centipede.
If the first segment of the centipede ever hits a wall or any other segment, the player should lose. Put up a message to the user telling them.
If the player survives a minute, they win - put up a message telling them that.

In order to check for a collision between the first centipede segment and later segments you will need to check to see if the rectangle for the first segment overlaps the rectangle for the remaining segments. I suggest looking at this site here. In particular I suggest that you pilfer this slight modification of their function :

def overlap(r1,r2):
    '''Overlapping rectangles overlap both horizontally & vertically
	edited from the original to work with the rect class below '''
    hoverlaps = True
    voverlaps = True
    if (r1.left() > r2.right()) or (r1.right() < r2.left()):
        hoverlaps = False
    if (r1.top() > r2.bottom()) or (r1.bottom() < r2.top()):
        voverlaps = False
    return hoverlaps and voverlaps

To use the function above, you will need this code for your class too. Just copy this into your file

class rect:

          def __init__ (self, pict):

              '''

              pict should be a zelle
      graphics.image file

              '''

              self.pict = pict

              pass

      

          def right(self):

              return
      self.pict.getAnchor().getX() + self.pict.getWidth()/2

          def left(self):

              return
      self.pict.getAnchor().getX() - self.pict.getWidth()/2

          def top(self):

              return
      self.pict.getAnchor().getY() - self.pict.getHeight()/2

          def bottom(self):

              return
      self.pict.getAnchor().getY() + self.pict.getHeight()/2

once you have these two items, create a rectangle from a graphics.Image object

firstSegmentBounds = rect(firstImage)

laterSegementBounds = rect(laterImage)

if overlap(firstSegmentBounds, laterSegmentBounds):

#do whatever you need to for the player losing

Submission:

Put a readme.txt file into the project directory with:

your name
directions on how to use/run your program

especially what keys I should use.

anything left undone.

Zip up your entire project directory and submit the zip file on blackboard.