Draw the Floor¶

In this exercise, we will make the character walk on a stone floor. To do so, we need to add a representation of the dungeon to the game data.

The complete feature consists of three steps:

create a data structure containing a map of the dungeon
fill the dungeon map with floor tiles
draw each floor tile on the screen

Create a data structure¶

First, add a new attribute to the DungeonGame class. We will call it level:

level: list[str]

The list will contains multiple rows. Each row represents a row on the screen. Each row contains multiple characters, each representing a single tile in the dungeon.

Hint

When you run the code, you should see an error message similar to:

level
    Field required [type=missing, input_value={'x': 8, 'y': 1}, input_type=dict]

Fill the dungeon map¶

We need to provide data for the level when the game starts. Add a new parameter to the creation of DungeonGame in the start_game() function:

level=[
    "..........",
    "..........",
    "..........",
    "..........",
    "..........",
    "..........",
    "..........",
    "..........",
    "..........",
    "..........",
]

Here you have a straightforward representation of a 10 x 10 dungeon. It is a bit boring, because it only contains floor tiles. But we will add other things soon.

Hint

When you run the program, the character should move. However, you cannot see the floor yet.

Draw floor tiles¶

The last detail is to draw the floor. For every floor tile, we will draw the image floor.png. The module responsible for the graphics is main.py. We need to explicitly draw every tile in every row. This is done by a loop within a loop.

Add the following code section to the function draw():

# draw dungeon tiles
for y, row in enumerate(game.level):
    for x, tile in enumerate(row):
        draw_tile(frame, x=x, y=y, image=images["floor"])

Hint

You need to figure out where in the draw() function to position these four lines. When everything works, the game should look like this: