Stomp or Be Hit

Part of the Worlds section of Coddy's Pygame journey. Lesson 25 of 35.

Touching a blob should matter, in two ways. Land on top of it and the blob is beaten. Walk into it and the player is hurt.

The difference is how the player arrived. It came from above if it is falling, vel_y > 0, and its feet are still above the blob's middle:

for blob in blobs:
    if player.colliderect(blob.rect):
        if vel_y > 0 and player.bottom < blob.rect.centery:
            blob.kill()
            vel_y = -8
        else:
            player.midbottom = start
            vel_y = 0

blob.kill() removes the sprite from the group, so it is no longer updated or drawn. vel_y = -8 is a small bounce, which tells the player the stomp worked and lets them chain one into a jump. Anything else is a hit from the side or below, and the player goes back to the start, as after a fall.

Loop over the group to test each blob. kill() inside the loop is safe here, because the loop runs over the group's sprites as they were when it started.

Challenge

Medium

After the blobs move, loop over blobs.
When the player collides with a blob's Rect: if vel_y > 0 and player.bottom < blob.rect.centery, call blob.kill() and set vel_y = -8.
Otherwise set player.midbottom = start and vel_y = 0.

Try it yourself

import pygame

TILE = 36
SPEED = 4
GRAVITY = 1
JUMP = -15
MAX_FALL = 12

LEVEL = [
    "................",
    "................",
    "................",
    "................",
    "..........####..",
    "................",
    "...####.........",
    "................",
    "#.P............#",
    "################",
]

pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((576, 360))
pygame.display.set_caption("Stomp")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

background = pygame.image.load("assets/backgrounds/clouds.png").convert_alpha()
block_img = pygame.image.load("assets/images/block.png").convert_alpha()
player_img = pygame.image.load("assets/images/player.png").convert_alpha()
blob_img = pygame.image.load("assets/images/blob.png").convert_alpha()


class Blob(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, midbottom):
        super().__init__()
        self.image = blob_img
        self.rect = pygame.Rect(0, 0, 30, 26)
        self.rect.midbottom = midbottom
        self.direction = 1

    def update(self):
        self.rect.x += self.direction
        if self.direction > 0:
            ahead = self.rect.right
        else:
            ahead = self.rect.left - 1
        hit_wall = any(self.rect.colliderect(wall) for wall in walls)
        ground_ahead = any(wall.collidepoint(ahead, self.rect.bottom) for wall in walls)
        if hit_wall or not ground_ahead:
            self.rect.x -= self.direction
            self.direction = -self.direction

walls = []
for row, line in enumerate(LEVEL):
    for col, char in enumerate(line):
        if char == "#":
            walls.append(pygame.Rect(col * TILE, row * TILE, TILE, TILE))
        elif char == "P":
            start = (col * TILE + TILE // 2, row * TILE + TILE)

blobs = pygame.sprite.Group(Blob((432, 144)), Blob((432, 324)))
player = player_img.get_rect(midbottom=start)
vel_y = 0
on_ground = False

running = True
while running:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False
        elif event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN and event.key in (pygame.K_SPACE, pygame.K_UP):
            if on_ground:
                vel_y = JUMP
        elif event.type == pygame.KEYUP and event.key in (pygame.K_SPACE, pygame.K_UP):
            if vel_y < -4:
                vel_y = -4

    keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
    dx = 0
    if keys[pygame.K_LEFT]:
        dx -= SPEED
    if keys[pygame.K_RIGHT]:
        dx += SPEED

    player.x += dx
    for wall in walls:
        if player.colliderect(wall):
            if dx > 0:
                player.right = wall.left
            elif dx < 0:
                player.left = wall.right

    vel_y = min(vel_y + GRAVITY, MAX_FALL)
    player.y += vel_y
    on_ground = False
    for wall in walls:
        if player.colliderect(wall):
            if vel_y > 0:
                player.bottom = wall.top
                on_ground = True
            elif vel_y < 0:
                player.top = wall.bottom
            vel_y = 0

    blobs.update()

    for y in range(0, 360, 72):
        for x in range(0, 576, 72):
            screen.blit(background, (x, y))
    for wall in walls:
        screen.blit(block_img, wall)
    for blob in blobs:
        screen.blit(blob.image, blob.image.get_rect(midbottom=blob.rect.midbottom))
    screen.blit(player_img, player)
    pygame.display.flip()
    clock.tick(60)

pygame.quit()