I’ve made a bit of progress over the last few days. Which is nice. I thought I’d share the progress with you and, if you’re interested in such things, give you a small insight to how such feats are achieved.
First of all, here’s a video clip of the current state of the game. It still isn’t much to look at but it has most of the basic gameplay elements implemented; Moving, Jumping, and Shooting.
Now, here’s a few parts of the game code for you to look at, I’ve taken some screen grabs from Bullet.cs and Game1.cs (Click to enlarge the images)
Bullet.cs is exactly what you think, it’s the code that handles everything bullet related, so it initialises the bullets with their starting variables, moves them around the screen and Draws them so the player can see them.
Game1.cs is the real heart of the game, it manages everything. This is a snippet of the code which handles bullets. You can see the game waiting for input from the controller and then adding a bullet. Bullets are stored in a structure similar to an Array, a List. Lists are dynamic in size so they only use memory when it’s needed, an Array would work the same but instead of having to tell the game to initialise an Array with 200 memory slots, the List increases and decreases in size to suit the requirements.
So, there you have it. The project is progressing quite nicely, and quicker than I imagined. Next task – Implement some form of collision detection.