Goals for Thursday:

• Functioning pause/resume
• Have a text file containing settings
• Create a dictionary of game states (current level/difficulty, # of lives, # of enemies)
• Cleanly manage states of turtles so that restart function can reset these states
• Add more enemy turtles

I didn’t have much time since Tuesday to work on this, but I have managed to get the game so far to pause/resume by pressing “P”. I have also created a text file with some settings for each level, though the file itself is not in use yet. I have also created a dictionary to manage game states including level, lives, and number of collected items, but only the “level” key is being used currently to determine how many enemies to spawn and I have created more enemy turtles. So far I feel like the milestones I have set are reachable.

To do list:

• Manage states of turtles to allow a restart function to be easily implemented
• Put the text file I created to use
• Use the rest of my dictionary
• Create collectible turtles
• Check for collisions
• Restart function
• Beating a level restarts the game with updated gamesettings (more enemies, more difficult)
• Make “Help” button print something helpful

Stretch goals:

• Improve enemy random movement
• Power ups

Possible changes:

• Spawn each enemy in set location rather than at random