Kivy Blueprints

Introducing Kivy Bird

Next on our list is the playable character, that is, the biologically improbable Kivy Bird:

Rare species, the Kivy Bird sprite

There will be nothing fancy related to textures this time; in fact, the Bird class will be derived from Kivy's Image widget (kivy.uix.image.Image) to completely avoid doing any clever rendering whatsoever.

In kivybird.kv we need a bare minimum of properties involving the bird image depicted earlier; its initial position and size are given as follows:

Bird:
    id: bird
    pos_hint: {'center_x': 0.3333, 'center_y': 0.6}
    size: (54, 54)
    size_hint: (None, None)
    source: 'bird.png'

This is the initial implementation ...