Question

Basically, my main idea is that we would program most of the entire game in a while loop (except when constructing a screen). When the game ends, I let the user enter another while loop so that the player is getting the chance to click the mouse (which starts the game over) while in the loop. The loop I coded is below. However, the screen keeps freezing (i.e. the mouse press method never works) without any errors. I don’t know why it’s happening.

while not pygame.mouse.get_pressed()[0]:
clock.tick(20)
background_image = pygame.image.load("GameOver.jpg").convert()

When the mouse is pressed, the while loop guiding the rest of the game goes over once again. Please ask if you’re confused about anything about my problem.

Answer 1

You need to be sure you’re calling pygame.event.get() to get the events from the cue before checking for pygame.mouse.get_pressed() or it will not work.

It’s a bit difficult to suggest where to put into your code without seeing what’s around it but basically:

pygame.event.get()
while not pygame.mouse.get_pressed()[0]:
    #DO SOMETHING
    pygame.event.get()

You may find it is easier to just set a flag when they enter this mode and check on the flag instead of creating another while loop.