Title Screen¶

At the beginning of the game, there should be a title screen before the actual game begins. The title screen should have the following:

a big image in the center
a text below the image
music playing in the background
when the player presses a key, the title screen disappears and the game starts

A cutscene module¶

Create a new file cutscene.py in the same folder as the other Python files. Inside of it, create a new function show_cutscene(). Apart from the imports, all code in this chapter goes into that function.

Call that function in main.py before the game starts:

from cutscene import show_cutscene

...
show_cutscene()

Title image¶

You can use the image title.png:

img = cv2.imread("images/title.png")

Text¶

For the text, you may want to create some empty space at the bottom of the image before you write into it:

img[-100:] = 0  # last 100 pixel rows are black
img = cv2.putText(
    img,
    "Hello World,
    org=(15, 490),  # x/y position of the text
    fontFace=cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX,
    fontScale=1,
    color=(255, 255, 255),  # white
    thickness=2,
)

Finally, display everything on the screen:

cv2.imshow("Cutscene", img)

Extras¶

See the previous chapter for including music.

Waiting for a key is easy if you do not want to do anything with the key:

cv2.waitKey(0)

At the end, to not forget to clean up everything:

cv2.destroyAllWindows()
mixer.music.stop()

Hint

Once the cutscene() function works, you may want to add different end screens both for the successful and unsuccessful ending.