Health¶

Sooner or later, the character may get hurt. It could be quite demotivating if the game ends at the first contact with anything harmful. Let’s add health as a game element. A basic implementation needs the following:

add a health attribute
make it possible to take damage
draw a health bar

Health attribute¶

Add a new attribute health to the DungeonGame class. It should have the type int. Set an initial value that you decide.

Take damage¶

In the game it should be possible to lose health. If the health becomes zero, the game ends. Add this as a simple function in game.py:

def take_damage(game):
    game.health -= 1
    if game.health <= 0:
        game.status = "game over"

Hint

This function has no effect on the game yet. We will call it in the next chapter.

Draw a health bar¶

For the health bar, you have two options. Both need to be added to draw()

If the maximum health is high, you could draw an actual bar. Adjust the pixel position and color of the bar so that it looks like you want it to.:

frame[600:600 + game.health, 100:140] = (0, 0, 255)

Alternatively, if the health is a small number, you could draw an icon. The following line draws a series of 1-3 icons. Complete the gap with an image of your choice:

for i in range(game.health):
    draw_tile(frame, xbase=620, ybase=100, x=i, y=0, ...)

Hint

The outcome could look like this: