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    copied!<p>Thanks for taking the time to read this. I am trying to create a very basic tile game system with pygame. I am not the best at pygame, so I may be missing something fairly obvious. So far I have everything in one file. What I have right now seems really sloppy and there is probably a more efficient way of doing it, but right now I am just using 2d Arrays with a number that equates to a specific type of tile, (grass, water, etc). For that I am using numpy because that is what someone recommended to me. Though I don't know if I like this method, because what if in the future I had some tile that was not simply graphical, and had more specific attributes to it? Like a treasure chest for example or a trap? How would you structure this?</p> <p>But none the less, my problem is right now the screen is simply black, and isn't drawing the grass tiles. </p> <p>Here is the code: </p> <pre><code>import numpy import pygame import sys from pygame.locals import * pygame.init() fpsClock = pygame.time.Clock() windowWi = 800 windowHi = 608 mapWi = 50 # *16 = 800, etc mapHi = 38 # ----- all of the images ------------------------------ grass1 = pygame.image.load('pictures\(Grass\grass1.png') #------------------------------------------------------- screen = pygame.display.set_mode((windowWi, windowHi)) pygame.display.set_caption("Tile Testing!") gameRunning = True groundArray = numpy.ones((mapWi,mapHi)) def drawMapArray(maparray): for x in range(mapWi,1): for y in range(mapHi,1): #Determines tile type. if maparray[y,x] == 1: screen.blit(grass1, (x*16, y*16)) else: print "Nothing is here!" while gameRunning: drawMapArray(groundArray) for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == "QUIT": pygame.quit() sys.exit() #Updates display and then sets FPS to 30 FPS. pygame.display.update() fpsClock.tick(30) </code></pre> <p>Please feel free to steer me in a better structural direction as I am very new to game design and want any feedback!</p> <p>Thanks, Ryan </p> <p>EDIT: I have tried this, which makes sense logically but I am getting an index out of range error.</p> <pre><code>def drawMapArray(maparray): for x in range(0,mapWi,1): for y in range(0,mapHi,1): #Determines tile type. if maparray[y,x] == 1: screen.blit(grass1, (x*16, y*16)) else: print "Nothing is here!" </code></pre>
 

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