Python Game Programming By Example

The tower defense actors

We will define several classes in the actors.py module to represent the game objects.

As with our previous game, we will include a base class, from which the rest of the actor classes will inherit:

import cocos.sprite
import cocos.euclid as eu
import cocos.collision_model as cm

class Actor(cocos.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, img, x, y):
        super(Actor, self).__init__(img, position=(x, y))
        self._cshape = cm.CircleShape(self.position,
                                      self.width * 0.5)

    @property
    def cshape(self):
        self._cshape.center = eu.Vector2(self.x, self.y)
        return self._cshape

In the Actor implementation in the previous chapter, when the sprite was displaced by calling the move() method, both cshape and position were updated at the same time. However, ...