Shake on Impact

Part of the Sound and Game Feel section of Coddy's Pygame journey. Lesson 22 of 23.

Now the shake. A laser hit adds a little, shake = min(shake + 6, 15), so a chain of kills stays readable. A crash costs a life and should be felt more: it sets shake = 15.

To shake, the game draws on a world Surface and blits it at an offset, as in the crate demo:

world.fill((12, 14, 30))
enemies.draw(world)
# ... the ship, lasers, explosions and sparks on world too

offset = (0, 0)
if shake > 0:
    amount = shake // 3
    offset = (random.randint(-amount, amount), random.randint(-amount, amount))
    shake -= 1
screen.fill((0, 0, 0))
screen.blit(world, offset)

Only the playfield goes on the world. The score, lives and wave are drawn on the screen after the blit, so they stay put and readable while everything else jolts.

Challenge

Medium

Before the loop, make world = pygame.Surface((640, 480)) and shake = 0.
Where a laser destroys an enemy, add shake = min(shake + 6, 15). Where an enemy crashes into the ship, set shake = 15.
Draw the background fill, the sprites, the explosions and the sparks on world instead of screen.
Then pick the offset as shown, fill the screen black and blit world at the offset. Keep the text after it, on the screen.

Try it yourself

import random
import pygame

pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480))
pygame.display.set_caption("Star Patrol")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
font = pygame.font.Font(None, 32)

ship_image = pygame.image.load("assets/images/ship.png").convert_alpha()
laser_image = pygame.image.load("assets/images/laser.png").convert_alpha()
red_image = pygame.image.load("assets/images/enemy_red.png").convert_alpha()
green_image = pygame.image.load("assets/images/enemy_green.png").convert_alpha()
yellow_image = pygame.image.load("assets/images/enemy_yellow.png").convert_alpha()
explosion_frames = []
for number in range(1, 5):
    explosion_frames.append(pygame.image.load(f"assets/images/explosion_{number}.png").convert_alpha())

laser_sound = pygame.mixer.Sound("assets/sounds/laser.ogg")
laser_sound.set_volume(0.4)
explosion_sound = pygame.mixer.Sound("assets/sounds/explosion.ogg")
hit_sound = pygame.mixer.Sound("assets/sounds/hit.ogg")

WAVES = [(red_image, 6, 2), (green_image, 8, 2), (yellow_image, 10, 3)]


class Player(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.image = ship_image
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect(midbottom=(320, 470))
        self.mask = pygame.mask.from_surface(self.image)

    def update(self):
        keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
        if keys[pygame.K_LEFT]:
            self.rect.x -= 6
        if keys[pygame.K_RIGHT]:
            self.rect.x += 6
        self.rect.clamp_ip(screen.get_rect())


class Laser(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, x, y):
        super().__init__()
        self.image = laser_image
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect(midbottom=(x, y))
        self.mask = pygame.mask.from_surface(self.image)

    def update(self):
        self.rect.y -= 10
        if self.rect.bottom < 0:
            self.kill()


class Enemy(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, image, x, y, speed):
        super().__init__()
        self.image = image
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect(center=(x, y))
        self.mask = pygame.mask.from_surface(self.image)
        self.speed = speed

    def update(self):
        self.rect.y += self.speed


class Explosion(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, center):
        super().__init__()
        self.index = 0
        self.timer = 0
        self.image = explosion_frames[0]
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect(center=center)

    def update(self):
        self.timer += 1
        if self.timer == 5:
            self.timer = 0
            self.index += 1
            if self.index == len(explosion_frames):
                self.kill()
            else:
                self.image = explosion_frames[self.index]


def play_music(path, loops=-1):
    pygame.mixer.music.load(path)
    pygame.mixer.music.play(loops)


def burst(center):
    for i in range(16):
        particles.append({
            "x": center[0],
            "y": center[1],
            "vx": random.uniform(-4, 4),
            "vy": random.uniform(-4, 4),
            "life": random.randint(15, 30),
        })


def spawn_wave(image, count, speed):
    for i in range(count):
        x = random.randint(40, 600)
        enemies.add(Enemy(image, x, -40 - i * 120, speed))


player = Player()
lasers = pygame.sprite.Group()
enemies = pygame.sprite.Group()
explosions = pygame.sprite.Group()
particles = []
last_shot = 0
score = 0
lives = 3
wave = 0
image, count, speed = WAVES[wave]
spawn_wave(image, count, speed)
pygame.mixer.music.set_volume(0.5)
play_music("assets/music/level.ogg")

running = True
while running:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False

    if lives > 0 and wave < len(WAVES):
        player.update()
        keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
        now = pygame.time.get_ticks()
        if keys[pygame.K_SPACE] and now - last_shot >= 250:
            lasers.add(Laser(player.rect.centerx, player.rect.top))
            last_shot = now
            laser_sound.play()
        lasers.update()
        enemies.update()
        for enemy in enemies:
            if enemy.rect.top > 480:
                enemy.kill()
                lives -= 1
                hit_sound.play()
        hits = pygame.sprite.groupcollide(enemies, lasers, True, True, pygame.sprite.collide_mask)
        for enemy in hits:
            score += 10
            explosion_sound.play()
            burst(enemy.rect.center)
            explosions.add(Explosion(enemy.rect.center))
        crashes = pygame.sprite.spritecollide(player, enemies, True, pygame.sprite.collide_mask)
        for enemy in crashes:
            lives -= 1
            hit_sound.play()
            explosions.add(Explosion(enemy.rect.center))
            burst(enemy.rect.center)
        if not enemies:
            wave += 1
            if wave < len(WAVES):
                image, count, speed = WAVES[wave]
                spawn_wave(image, count, speed)
            else:
                play_music("assets/music/win.ogg", 0)
        if lives <= 0:
            play_music("assets/music/lose.ogg", 0)
    explosions.update()
    for p in particles:
        p["x"] += p["vx"]
        p["y"] += p["vy"]
        p["life"] -= 1
    particles = [p for p in particles if p["life"] > 0]

    screen.fill((12, 14, 30))
    enemies.draw(screen)
    lasers.draw(screen)
    screen.blit(player.image, player.rect)
    explosions.draw(screen)
    for p in particles:
        pygame.draw.circle(screen, (255, 170, 60), (p["x"], p["y"]), p["life"] // 10 + 1)
    score_text = font.render(f"Score: {score}", True, (240, 240, 240))
    screen.blit(score_text, (10, 10))
    lives_text = font.render(f"Lives: {max(lives, 0)}", True, (240, 240, 240))
    screen.blit(lives_text, lives_text.get_rect(topright=(630, 10)))
    if wave < len(WAVES):
        wave_text = font.render(f"Wave {wave + 1}", True, (240, 240, 240))
        screen.blit(wave_text, wave_text.get_rect(midtop=(320, 10)))
    if lives <= 0:
        message = font.render("Game over", True, (240, 240, 240))
        screen.blit(message, message.get_rect(center=(320, 240)))
    elif wave == len(WAVES):
        message = font.render("You win!", True, (240, 240, 240))
        screen.blit(message, message.get_rect(center=(320, 240)))
    pygame.display.flip()
    clock.tick(60)

pygame.quit()