created a basic demonstraction of how text rendering should work, added some positive comments to the json opening code

game.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from PIL import Image
+from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
 import logging
 import pygame
 import gameUtils
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class Game(gameUtils.Game):
         # an object or something, I don't know. Keep in mind you
         # have to load all of the font files for use later.
         with open(f'./fonts/fonts.json', 'r') as f:
-            j = json.loads(f.read())
+            self.fontList = json.loads(f.read())#loads the fonts from the json (Why the fuck was the variable called 'j' before????)
 
         #for fontData in j:
         #    self.fonts.update()
@@ -87,7 +87,18 @@ class Game(gameUtils.Game):
         # Don't remove this. It does important things. :3
         super().update()
 
-        self.surf.fill((0, 0, 0))
+        self.Drawsurface  = Image.new("RGB",(800,220),(255,255,255))                #creates a surface to draw the fonts on
+        self.textTest = ImageFont.truetype("./fonts/"+self.fontList[2]["file"],200) #loads the font
+        self.draw = ImageDraw.Draw(self.Drawsurface)                                #creates an object to let us draw to the surface
+
+        self.draw.text((10,10),"Hello", font=self.textTest, fill=(0,0,0))           #actually draws the text
+        
+        self.pygameConvert = pygame.image.fromstring(self.Drawsurface.tobytes(), self.Drawsurface.size, self.Drawsurface.mode)  #converts the pillow image to a pygame image
+                                                                                                                                #no, there wasn't an easier way I could find to achieve this, stab me
+
+        self.surf.fill((0, 0, 0))                                       #sets the background colour
+        self.surf.blit(gameUtils.centre(self.pygameConvert,self.size))  #draws the text to center of the screen
+                                                                        #TODO: actually scale the text, however, more work needs to be done on the actual function of the game first
 
     def close(self):
         """

launch.json

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{
+    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
+    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
+    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
+    "version": "0.2.0",
+    "configurations": [
+        {
+            "name": "Python Debugger",
+            "type": "debugpy",
+            "request": "launch",
+            "python": "../PainJamLauncher/.venv/Scripts/python.exe",
+            "program": "../PainJamLauncher/__main__.py",
+            "args": ["captchaGame"],
+            "console": "integratedTerminal"
+        }
+    ]
+}