To change starpusher, I decided to go with something awesome: cats. Instead of having a princess pushing stars around, I have a cat pushing around a ball of yarn. To do this I had the two pictures, one of a black cat and one a ball of yarn to the IMAGESDICT file as such:
IMAGESDICT = {'uncovered goal': pygame.image.load('RedSelector$
'covered goal': pygame.image.load('Selector.png'),
'star': pygame.image.load('ball_of_yarn.png'),
'corner': pygame.image.load('Wall_Block_Tall.png'),
'wall': pygame.image.load('Wood_Block_Tall.png'),
'inside floor': pygame.image.load('Plain_Block.png'),
'outside floor': pygame.image.load('Grass_Block.png'),
'title': pygame.image.load('star_title.png'),
'solved': pygame.image.load('star_solved.png'),
'princess': pygame.image.load('princess.png'),
'boy': pygame.image.load('boy.png'),
'catgirl': pygame.image.load('catgirl.png'),
'horngirl': pygame.image.load('horngirl.png'),
'pinkgirl': pygame.image.load('pinkgirl.png'),
'rock': pygame.image.load('Rock.png'),
'short tree': pygame.image.load('Tree_Short.png'),
'tall tree': pygame.image.load('Tree_Tall.png'),
'ugly tree': pygame.image.load('Tree_Ugly.png'),
'cat': pygame.image.load('cat_black.png'),
'yarn': pygame.image.load('ball_of_yarn.png')}
Along with this, I changed the text at the introduction of the game to reflect the changes in the game itself. To do this I changed the following text in the starpusher.py folder.
instructionText = ['Help the cat have fun! Move the arrow keys to push the ball of yarn around.'$
'Arrow keys to move, WASD for camera control, P to change character.'
'Backspace to reset level, Esc to quit.',
'N for next level, B to go back a level.']
And, I changed the starting demo level by moving the black cat to the bottom of the maze instead of the in the middle.
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I also changed the color of the opening screen from blue to green.
Here are some screenshots showing how everything turned out:
