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 Warm but rainy; and I'm having corn pudding and banana for breakfast.

Been running Codemy's code for Fed Aspen with sound effects. The code

below:

mport pygame
import random

# Pygame Setup Stuff
pygame.init()
WINDOW_WIDTH = 800
WINDOW_HEIGHT = 500
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT))
pygame.display.set_caption('Codemy.com - Feed Aspen')
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
running = True
# Create Variables to keep track of score and lives
score = 0
lives = 5
speed = 5
playsound = True

dt = 0
player_pos = pygame.Vector2(screen.get_width() / 2, screen.get_height() / 2)

# Define Backgound Music
pygame.mixer.music.load('sounds/bg.wav')

# Play Background Music
pygame.mixer.music.play(-1, 0.0)

# Define Sound Effects
hit_sound = pygame.mixer.Sound('sounds/dog.mp3')
miss_sound = pygame.mixer.Sound('sounds/aww.mp3')
game_over_sound = pygame.mixer.Sound('sounds/game_over.mp3')

# Define the fonts
title_font = pygame.font.SysFont('impact', 40)
score_font = pygame.font.SysFont('impact', 25)
lives_font = pygame.font.SysFont('impact', 25)
game_over_font = pygame.font.SysFont('impact', 75)
restart_game_font = pygame.font.SysFont('impact', 40)

# Render the text (as surface) Text, boolean for antialiasing, text color, bg color
title_text = title_font.render("Feed Aspen!", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
score_text = score_font.render(f"Score: {score}", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
lives_text = lives_font.render(f"Lives: {lives}", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
game_over_text = game_over_font.render("Game Over", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
restart_game_text = restart_game_font.render("Press 'p' To Play Again...", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")

# Get Text Rect
title_text_rect = title_text.get_rect()
score_text_rect = score_text.get_rect()
lives_text_rect = lives_text.get_rect()
game_over_text_rect = game_over_text.get_rect()
restart_game_text_rect = restart_game_text.get_rect()

# Position the text
title_text_rect.center = (WINDOW_WIDTH / 2, 30)
score_text_rect.topleft = (10, 5)
lives_text_rect.topleft = ((WINDOW_WIDTH - lives_text.get_width() - 10), 5)
game_over_text_rect.center = (WINDOW_WIDTH / 2, WINDOW_HEIGHT / 2)
restart_game_text_rect.center = (WINDOW_WIDTH / 2, WINDOW_HEIGHT / 2 + 90)

# load our images
aspen = pygame.image.load('images/aspen2.png')
food = pygame.image.load('images/food2.png')

# get rect surrounding our images
aspen_rect = aspen.get_rect()
food_rect = food.get_rect()

# Position our images
aspen_rect.center = (60, WINDOW_HEIGHT / 2)
food_rect.x = WINDOW_WIDTH + 100
food_rect.y = random.randint(65, (WINDOW_HEIGHT - food.get_height()))

while running:
    # poll for events
    # pygame.QUIT event means that the user clicked the X to close the window
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False

    # Pick the screen color
    screen.fill("silver")

    # Blit text onto screen
    screen.blit(title_text, title_text_rect)
    screen.blit(score_text, score_text_rect)
    screen.blit(lives_text, lives_text_rect)

    # Check if we're out of lives
    if lives == 0:
        # Game over text
        screen.blit(game_over_text, game_over_text_rect)
        screen.blit(restart_game_text, restart_game_text_rect)
        # Stop The Food From Moving again
        food_rect.x = WINDOW_WIDTH + 100
        # food_rect.y = 10000

        if playsound:
            # Play game over sound
            game_over_sound.play()
            # Turn off bg music
            pygame.mixer.music.stop()
            # Turn music loop off
            playsound = False

        # Check for p to restart game
        keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
        if keys[pygame.K_p]:
            # Update game start variables
            score = 0
            lives = 5
            speed = 5
            playsound = True

            # re-render the score and lives
            score_text = score_font.render(f"Score: {score}", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
            lives_text = lives_font.render(f"Lives: {lives}", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")

            # Play Background Music
            pygame.mixer.music.play(-1, 0.0)

    # Blit images onto screen
    screen.blit(aspen, aspen_rect)
    screen.blit(food, food_rect)

    # Draw Line at top of the screen
    pygame.draw.line(screen, "#3d5f9f", (0, 60), (WINDOW_WIDTH, 60), 2)

    # Move Our Images
    keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()

    # Move Aspen
    if keys[pygame.K_UP] and aspen_rect.y > 70:
        aspen_rect.y -= 300 * dt
    if keys[pygame.K_DOWN] and aspen_rect.y < WINDOW_HEIGHT - aspen.get_height() - 5:
        aspen_rect.y += 300 * dt

    # Move Food
    if food_rect.x < 0:
        # Aspen Missed the Food!
        # Play sound
        miss_sound.play()
        # Lose a life
        lives -= 1
        # Update Lives On Screen
        lives_text = lives_font.render(f"Lives: {lives}", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
        food_rect.x = WINDOW_WIDTH + 100
        food_rect.y = random.randint(65, (WINDOW_HEIGHT - food.get_height()))
    else:
        # Move The food to the left
        food_rect.x -= speed

    # Check for collisions
    if aspen_rect.colliderect(food_rect):
        # Play sound
        hit_sound.play()

        # Increase the score
        score += 1
        speed += 2

        # Update Score Text
        score_text = score_font.render(f"Score: {score}", True, "#3d5f9f", "silver")
        food_rect.x = WINDOW_WIDTH + 100
        food_rect.y = random.randint(65, (WINDOW_HEIGHT - food.get_height()))

    # flip the display to output our work to the screen
    pygame.display.flip()

    # Set the clock stuff / delta time in seconds since the last frame
    # used for framerate independent physics
    dt = clock.tick(60) / 1000

pygame.quit()

To download the sound files:

https://github.com/flatplanet/PyGame-Youtube-Tutorial/tree/main/sounds

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It happens sometimes; I've had a totally frustrating day trying to a tween on the camera layer

in Pencil2d. Seems easy enough for those succeeding at it: the camera glides over an image and

zooms in and out seamlessly. Not for me; the image is staying the same and twitching all at

once on arrival.

I've even gone to the lengths of downloading an experimental version - Nightly Bild - all to no

avail. found a GIF that explains the whole thing, but it is going too fast for me to follow.

FINALLY found an approach that might work. I've got the GIF file in Clipchamp, where I can

start and stop it at will. We'll see tomorrow...

The GIF, at number 3: 

[Guide] Understanding the Camera Layer - Installing Pencil2D / How to - Pencil2D Community