So coming into this my design strategy was to separate everything into clean modules that made as much sense as possible. So here is what happened:

• First thing I did after reading the code was creating a new module called gameboy.py that had everything in it that had to do with creating the gameboy. Then I took the giant code blocks and turned them into functions with intuitive names so I could delete the comments and clean up the code.
• This was still really messy so I ended up creating another module called turtles.py that kept all of my turtles in it. My turtles.py was still messy and I realized that fin was a cut above the rest so I put fin in his own module and all of the others went into one together. I realized I wanted to import stuff without having to type out each thing so I googled it and found this (http://effbot.org/zone/import-confusion.htm) which showed me the from module import * and that was extremely useful.
• I created a function set_turtle to cut down repetitive code, I looked for more code to refactor into functions but this was all I saw.
• My gameboy.py then basically became empty since I imported everything I needed into it using the functions from my turtles.
• Realizing that the blocks can be further separated they became their own module: blocks.py
• I placed all of my constants into one module and imported those constants into blocks.py, finturtle.py, and otherturtles.py
• The last thing I tried was to place the moveDirection functions into a separate module but that ended up breaking everything so I just left in the main module since they were integral to how the game plays.