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Python Game Programming By Example

You're reading from   Python Game Programming By Example A pragmatic guide for developing your own games with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785281532
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cocos2d actions

In our previous game, we manipulated our sprites directly through their members, especially the position attribute. The game loop updated each actor with the elapsed time from the previous frame.

However, our tower defense game will be based mainly on cocos2d actions, which are orders to modify object attributes such as the position, rotation, or scale. They are executed by calling the do() method of the CocosNode class. Therefore, any sprite, layer, or scene can be a valid target of an action.

The actions that we will cover in this section can be divided into two main groups: interval actions and instant actions.

Interval actions

These actions have a duration, and their execution ends after that certain duration. For instance, if we want to move a sprite to a certain position, we do not want it to happen immediately but last a fixed amount of time, giving the impression that it moves with a determined speed. This can be achieved with the MoveTo action:

import cocos
import cocos...
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