Finagles’ 8th Rule: Teamwork is essential; it allows you to blame someone else.
Today, we’re finally getting our breakout game into a playable state! Yes!!
See how to implement functionality to recognise when the ball hits a block, and make the block disappear. This is really the centrepiece of our program – from now on, everything else is detail.
Concepts discussed: collision detection, removing an object from the world
Download (scenario as of beginning of this episode): breakout-v7.zip
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Things are start to heat up in our scenario: Snakes are chasing Trick (the turtle) over the plane. (That’s, of course, ‘plane’ as in ‘flat bit of ground’, not as in ‘flying thing’).
Concepts discussed: Hmm, don’t know. Creating yet another class. Copy-and-paste coding – is that a concept?
The person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person
who knows WHY will always be his/her boss.
— Anonymous
Trying a different presentation style for a change (in an attempt to speed things up a bit), today we’ll do a quick run through first, followed by some explanation.
And what we’re doing is giving our turtle something to eat. Have a look.
Concepts discussed: creating a new class, if statement, collision detection, saving the world (yes, really.)