startworld

Start the 2D-evolution environment and populate it with sprites.

This can be run by both itself and simulate, for multiple tests.

Almost all of the GUI functionality is abstracted away either by PyGame or gui, leaving space for all of the project-specific logic.

Almost all of the runtime behaviour for this module and all others are made unique by the config.

startworld.main()

Main function containing the event loop.

All of the sprite objects and its groups are instantiated here.

The main event loop is set to run at a constant pace of 60 frames per second by default but because of bottlenecks (mainly rendering), the actual game speed will slow down as more sprite.Entity objects become active.

“Actions” of the sprite.Entity (such as sprite.Entity.move()) and other sprite subclasses are carried out by calling their respective group’s loop method, which in their turn call each of the individual sprite’s update method.

See also

sprite.EntityGroup.loop() and sprite.Entity.update().