Python Idle Clicker Adventure Capitalist Style Game | PT. 3 - Managers

what's going on you guys welcome back to the channel today's video is going to be a continuation in our building an adventure capitalist style idol clicker game using python and pygame and if you missed the first two episodes of the video we did get to a point where you can click the different tasks they run at different speeds we draw everything onto the screen and we give you more money as you go through and run different tasks so i do recommend checking out the first two if you want to follow along click for click but if you're just here for the concepts in this video that's cool too so let's get right into it um as i said we have created this game where you can click these five different tasks they run different speeds you get different money per task that's really cool but a big piece of the adventure capitalist and like all these idol clicker games is there are buttons where you can buy more of each product or you can buy managers to automate your stuff so that's what we'll do in this video is we'll draw those buttons onto the screen and set up a system where you can kind of advance the game and get progressively more money as as you go about it so we already draw a lot on the screen in this draw task so i'm thinking to draw the buttons on let's create a new function you could absolutely like continue modifying the draw task function if you want but you're going to get to a point where you have to pass in like 12 variables and you get like six things back and i think since this is kind of a separate task and separate idea i like the idea of doing it in its own function so let's take a look at it since these are going to be buttons in the same way that we called the task above we gave it a name so that we could return it let's just anticipate needing to return both of these and so we'll say color button so that'll be this will be the first one that lets you buy more of each color and let's say that's going to be a rectangle pygame.draw.rect just like before and we're going to put it on the screen and we're going to make it a color so just like before we'll want to pass in a color variable that'll be one of the things we need another reason i really like thinking about this in terms of like a function and writing the function first is it points out to you what variables you need to pass in and what you can expect to get back out so there's no right and wrong way of doing it as long as it works in the end but i like doing it this way so we're going to pass in color and then before we pass we just need to change a y coordinate right well i'm thinking for these we're just going to change an x-coordinate so we'll make the green buttons all the way on the left of the screen and we'll have the purple buttons all the way on the right and we'll space them out that way so we're going to pass in an x-coordinate but then for these buttons for the top row of buttons i think we'll put them at 340 that should be below all of the tasks and then we'll just make it 50 wide and 30 tall so that's a good size button and we'll have to pass in an x coordinate and that'll be the first button and then let's go ahead and say we're going to want to display on the button how much it costs to buy that so we'll call that color cost and i think what that means is we're going to need to pass in a variable that's cost so we'll keep track of how many are owned and how many um how much it would cost to buy the next one in the outside world so we'll pass that in and we'll do font.render because this is going to be text and we'll do string of the cost and i think just like before i'm going to do this with any text that we display that could be fractional i'm going to round it just preemptively so it doesn't give us issues later on and we'll make this black text because it's going on a colorful button and that'll be a little bit easier to read and then let's do screen dot blit and let's put color cost right on the screen spell it right would help and we are going to screen. cost and then let's use that x chord again and just scoot it to the right a bit so it's not fighting for screen space and then we'll put just a little bit below the start of the rectangle so it should pretty much be in the middle of the screen here and let's go ahead and say for the manager i think it only makes sense to display a button to let you buy the manager if it's not already purchased so we'll pass in a variable called owned that'll say whether or not you've bought the manager for that color already and if it hasn't been purchased that's when we'll display what i'll call the manager button so we have the color button and the manager button and essentially everything else will be just like what we had before so i'll actually copy this save us a little bit of time and all we'll really need to do it'll still be on screen it'll still be on the color and it'll be at that same x coordinate let's just move it down the screen a little bit so we'll put it right underneath that first button and then we'll call this manager cost instead of color cost we'll scoot it in and actually we should probably call this manager text because i think since we're already using a variable called cost and we have to pass another variable in we'll want to pass in a manager cost instead of just cost for the manager all right so i think i like that and let's go ahead and pass in manager text and then just like before 350 we want to move that down a little bit so we'll put it at 410 and i think that will draw a cost rectangle and a manager rectangle on screen with whatever cost we pass in so you can see right here i think we need to create three new variables for this function as well for um for using these and calling them but we just know right away too we're going to return the color button and the manager button okay so to do i think that'll do it let's go ahead and create cost owned and manager cost for everything up in our game variables section so um this is getting pretty long the game variables so i'll make a new one that's draw buttons function and we're going to have green cost which i think will start out just charging what we'll start out charging what the value of it is and again you can mess with this as much as you want but then to start none of the managers are going to be owned so we'll make that false and then we'll make the green manager cost let's make it a hundred you want the manager cost to be significantly more than like just buying one more of each item because uh it's it's gonna be like a one-time purchase but then once you've bought it like it's running the thing for you so it should be difficult to buy them um the first time i think so that's why i'll make the managers all like kind of quite a bit more expensive than just buying like the next of each thing but so okay we go green then we go red then we go orange and again um once we get into the code of actually like what happens when you click on each of these things and buy them that's when we'll start playing around with like how to also make it so that it costs more to buy more of the thing as you've purchased 10 20 100 of them it should get more expensive to buy them because you're also going to be upgrading the value of each task so let's see here i think we'll go from for the manager costs we'll just go one two three four five to buy the initial one they'll all be false um to start because none of the managers will have been purchased but let's start getting as you buy the more expensive managers let's make it really to where like you feel that cost so we'll say four thousand and ten thousand and that may seem really high because like to start off you have to click every button to get every dollar but try to think like purple manager is the highest thing you can buy in this game that we've created so you want it to be like an achievement okay so we've created all those variables and we've created our function to draw the buttons but we haven't actually called drawing the buttons yet so let's see we're going to be getting color button and manager button back so let's say green color uh we'll just say green button that's probably easier i'll say green by and then green manager by is going to be equal to and we're going to get that back from draw buttons and then we are going to give this guy green we are going to give him an x coordinate of let me see what i went with 50. we are going to pass in the green value we are going to pass in draw green we are going to pass in green length and we are going to pass in green speed nope that's the task i passed in the wrong things one second we are going to do green sorry about that i passed in the variables for the task drawing so we're gonna give it green we're gonna give an x coordinate of 10 and then the variables we just made which are green cost green manager cost and then we are going to give it green owned so whether or not the manager has been purchased and before i think before i copy that five times let's just run this and make sure the buttons show up where we expect them on the screen yeah so something funky is going on here green manager by manager button did i not call it manager button if not owned hmm i don't see a problem with that [Music] button let me see the problem may be that um the problem may be that if it is owned then manager button just appears empty so let's say screen.black and let's let's call the manager button right here in the beginning so just in case it's not processing this and it's trying to pass it back let's see if that works okay well we get one button so we're close get rid of this i don't want to tear apart this code i feel like this should do it turn color button manager button manager buttons right there rectangle i'll get rid of the if not owned until we write the code for purchasing it and we'll take a look then it may be that there's no way to purchase it today so it doesn't like that um so we'll see but there we go the other thing is the manager cost is showing up as zero but we should be passing in let me see green cost green manager costa green owned i put those in the wrong order dang it all so that was our error there we passed in the wrong variables in the wrong spots so it this is a really important thing when you write multi multi-variable functions in python you have to make sure you pass them in in the right order so there we go it's cost owned then manager cost now i'm pretty sure that was the reason we couldn't we couldn't use this because it wasn't a boolean so it wasn't executing properly let's take a look now all right i feel a little bit better about that let's go ahead real quick and copy that in four times for the rest of the buttons and then we will call it a video here and we will take a look at actually finishing things out in the next video so this is gonna be red red red and we want to scoot it to the right by i think 60 so we'll make this 70. this now will be red cost red owned and red manager cost we gotta do that orange i'm gonna go ahead and copy the text that'll speed things up a little bit again i think i said this in the past videos um you can definitely set up for loops like if you were to create a list of your colors um you could definitely write some for loops that would be pretty slick code that would go through and do some of this code that we do like five times for the five different colors and you totally could use the same code to do it five times over sort of in the same way that we created generic functions to do a lot of this code code like draw buttons and draw the tasks five times you could do the exact same thing with all of these lines of code but it does get a little funky like if you want to um draw a rectangle onto the screen but you need to change the name of that rectangle with every iteration that can get a little weird plus this is a really easy way to look at it and just see it all in the same place so then 190 250 keep scooting at 60 to the right let's see if that draws 10 buttons on the screen for us so there we go we see the values we see the cost of the managers um you can play around with spacing i think i'm going to move the manager text a little bit to the left actually so we'll say just x plus 2 because that 10 000 got cut off a little bit yeah i think that looks better and let's just real quick let's throw in one last thing on this video let's actually put in text that says like what you're buying there so let's make uh some text that i'll call buy more and this will just go above those buttons where you buy stuff and let's say font dot render and then buy more like that and we're gonna do true and white okay and then we're gonna blit that guy and we're gonna put it for location we will put it right above those buttons so 10 315 is right about there and let's copy that and let's go ahead and do another one that we can call by managers and instead of buy more we will say by managers and then we just need it to go down a little bit so we'll put that at 380. that's a little bit lower down on the screen and let's take a look at that okay oh well it still says buy more because i didn't tell it to do by managers alrighty hopefully that fixes that buy more by managers so the buttons don't do anything yet but our game is playable we drew those buttons onto the screen we did it in a function so if we do need to modify those or use them in the future we have one generic function so hopefully you found this cool hopefully you're enjoying the series if you did be sure to leave a like subscribe to the channel it helps me out a ton and if you have any questions on what you saw today or want to be sure you see something specific in the future just let me know about in the comments below and be on the lookout for the fourth and final piece of making the game where we'll actually make it to where buying more and buying the managers do increase the value of the buttons and automate each task for you so keep an eye out for that check out the rest of the content on the channel and as always good luck with your code and thanks for watching thanks bye