Chapter 2Side-Scroller Game Basics
Learning Objectives—Upon completion of Chapter 2 readers will be able to:
- Create a space-themed side-scroller game
- Identify and work with sprites
- Animate sprites using switch states and rotation techniques
- Incorporate music and sounds into their project
- Add title screens and menu options to a game
- Include power-ups that modify game objects
- Identify object spawning and randomly spawn objects on the screen
- Incorporate scoring and graphical representations of player lives
- Modify their game with additional objects, sound files, and graphics provided
Project Overview: Scout
Our first game is Scout, a classic space-themed ...
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