Play Again

Lesson 17 of 40 in Coddy's Make Games with Pygame course.

After Game over the player should not have to restart the program. Let R start a new game: put every value that changed back where it started.

elif event.key == pygame.K_r and (lives == 0 or score == 10):
    score = 0
    lives = 3
    basket.x = 200
    block.y = -20
    block.x = random.randint(0, 460)

The condition matters. Without (lives == 0 or score == 10), R would wipe the score in the middle of a game. The brackets group the two endings, so the and applies to both.

Tell the player the key: show Press R to play again under the result.

Challenge

Medium

In the KEYDOWN branch, when the key is pygame.K_r and the game has ended, set the score to 0, the lives to 3, basket.x to 200, and drop a new block from y = -20 at a random x.
When the game has ended, also show Press R to play again centred at (240, 200).

Try it yourself

import random
import pygame

pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((480, 360))
pygame.display.set_caption("Catch the Blocks")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
font = pygame.font.Font(None, 32)

basket = pygame.Rect(200, 330, 80, 16)
block = pygame.Rect(220, 0, 20, 20)
score = 0
lives = 3
paused = False

running = True
while running:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False
        elif event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
            if event.key == pygame.K_p:
                paused = not paused

    if lives > 0 and score < 10 and not paused:
        keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
        if keys[pygame.K_LEFT]:
            basket.x -= 8
        if keys[pygame.K_RIGHT]:
            basket.x += 8
        basket.clamp_ip(screen.get_rect())

        block.y += 3
        if block.top > 360:
            block.y = -20
            block.x = random.randint(0, 460)
            lives -= 1
        if block.colliderect(basket):
            block.y = -20
            block.x = random.randint(0, 460)
            score += 1

    screen.fill((30, 30, 46))
    pygame.draw.rect(screen, (80, 160, 255), basket)
    pygame.draw.rect(screen, (235, 80, 80), block)
    score_text = font.render(f"Score: {score}", True, (240, 240, 240))
    screen.blit(score_text, (10, 10))
    lives_text = font.render(f"Lives: {lives}", True, (240, 240, 240))
    screen.blit(lives_text, (370, 10))
    if lives == 0:
        message = font.render("Game over", True, (240, 240, 240))
        screen.blit(message, message.get_rect(center=(240, 160)))
    elif score == 10:
        message = font.render("You win!", True, (240, 240, 240))
        screen.blit(message, message.get_rect(center=(240, 160)))
    if paused:
        message = font.render("Paused", True, (240, 240, 240))
        screen.blit(message, message.get_rect(center=(240, 160)))
    pygame.display.flip()
    clock.tick(60)

pygame.quit()