Game Over

Part of the Sprites and Images section of Coddy's Pygame journey. Lesson 37 of 39.

With no lives left, the game should stop. Everything that changes the game happens in the update part of the loop, so one if around it stops the whole game while the drawing goes on:

if lives > 0:
    player.update()
    # ... everything up to the crashes
explosions.update()

Keep explosions.update() outside it, so the blast that ended the game still plays out.

Then tell the player. Draw the message only while lives <= 0, and centre it with get_rect(center=(x, y)), as the Lives counter used topright.

Challenge

Medium

End the game when the lives run out.

Put the update part, from player.update() to the crashes, under if lives > 0:. Leave explosions.update() outside it.
Once lives <= 0, draw Game over centred at (320, 240).

Press Play and let three enemies through: Game over shows and everything stops. Then Check.

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()
explosion_frames = []
for number in range(1, 5):
    explosion_frames.append(pygame.image.load(f"assets/images/explosion_{number}.png").convert_alpha())


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 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()
last_shot = 0
score = 0
lives = 3
spawn_wave(red_image, 6, 2)

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

    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
    lasers.update()
    enemies.update()
    for enemy in enemies:
        if enemy.rect.top > 480:
            enemy.kill()
            lives -= 1
    hits = pygame.sprite.groupcollide(enemies, lasers, True, True, pygame.sprite.collide_mask)
    for enemy in hits:
        score += 10
        explosions.add(Explosion(enemy.rect.center))
    crashes = pygame.sprite.spritecollide(player, enemies, True, pygame.sprite.collide_mask)
    for enemy in crashes:
        lives -= 1
        explosions.add(Explosion(enemy.rect.center))
    explosions.update()

    screen.fill((12, 14, 30))
    enemies.draw(screen)
    lasers.draw(screen)
    screen.blit(player.image, player.rect)
    explosions.draw(screen)
    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)))
    pygame.display.flip()
    clock.tick(60)

pygame.quit()