Part 2 - Adding the pipes #

So now you have a background and a bird that flys up and down, let’s add the pipes that the bird must fly through.

You’ve already seen that we can create Actor objects and move these around the screen. If you’ve forgotten, go and look at where you use barry_the_bird in your code to see how it works.

So we need to add two pipes, and if you look in the images directory you’ll see we have two files named top.png and bottom.png. How do we add these to the game?

Let’s create two new actors, at the end of your code add:

top_pipe = Actor('top', (300,0))
bottom_pipe = Actor('bottom', (300,500))

We mustn’t forget to draw these pipes, so add this to your draw function:

top_pipe.draw()
bottom_pipe.draw()

• Press play to see the effect.

Great, we have some pipes! But they are just sitting there on the page and there’s no gap between them.

Can you figure out what the (300, 0) and (300, 500) parts do? (Try changing them)