Add the main menu screen where variations of the game can be selected

beloitcollegecomputerscience / RiverCrossingPuzzles

A project to implement a wide variety of river crossing puzzles into one application

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Add the main menu screen where variations of the game can be selected #52

Closed CorinaSterbet closed 4 years ago

CorinaSterbet commented 4 years ago

Add a new class "Main Manu" which handles the different variations of the game by loading the appropriate json config file on button click. Each game icon is a button when clicked sets the appropriate gameplay window (the menu background can be customized, right now it is the same background as for the gameplay screen).
The game now supports two variations: goat-wolf-hay-farmer problem, 2-goat problem.
To add a new game variation, add the complete json config file (in the configs folder) and also the game icon image with the same name as the json file (in the images folder).
Modify the existing classes to communicate with the new class.
Clean up and reduce the size of main.py, which only creates instances of the main game objects.
Add the game icon images displayed on the menu screen (and also some sounds to be played in win/loss screen announcements -- todo).

truonghh99 commented 4 years ago

The code looks good, I just have some questions:

When I leave 2 goats alone on one side, one eats the other. Is that a mistake in the config file?
Is the boat supposed to move up and down from one side to the other? It looks weird to me personally, even though that motion looks great on other characters. Can we customize the way some elements move?
The restart and help button are not working now (but the functions did print something out and that's a good sign). I can help completing this part, but just to confirm, what exactly should "help" button do? Give player a hint? Anyway, great job! Thanks for your work, Corina ~

CorinaSterbet commented 4 years ago

Thank you for the great questions, @truonghh99 Ha!

1) The pdf with the rules for each game (available at the top of the Moodle page) indicates that the 2 goats cannot be left alone because they will start fighting (hence, it is a conflict). 2) The intent was to make the boat move on the water in a more "realistic" way; however, any suggestions are welcome. 3) The restart and help buttons have not been implemented yet. Only the home button works now, and this is the main feature of this PR. I think we could discuss the function of the "help" button with the entire class but I believe that the simplest implementation would be to have the rules displayed (as an image) for the user to reference them.