Handling the player's input

- [Instructor] In the previous video, we looked at…preparing and drawing the player and other sprites.…In this video, we are going to take a look…at setting up a new game, detecting the player chopping,…detecting a key being released,…and animating the chopped logs and the axe.…Lots of different things depend…on the movement of the player,…such as when to show the axe,…when to begin animating the log,…and when to move all the branches down a place.…It therefore makes sense to set up…the keyboard handling for the player chopping.…Once this is done,…we can put all the features we just mentioned…into the same part of the code.…

Let's think for a moment about…how we can detect keyboard presses.…In each frame, we test whether a particular keyboard key…is currently being held down.…If it is, we take action.…If the Escape key is being held down, we quit the game,…or if the Enter key is being held down, we restart the game.…So far this has been sufficient for our needs.…There is, however, a problem with this approach…when we try and handle the chopping of the tree.…