Introducing the Scrolling Shooter project
The player's objective in this game is simply to destroy as many aliens as possible. Let's look into some more details about the features the game will have. Look at the starting screen for the Scrolling Shooter project in the next figure:
Figure 18.1 – Scrolling Shooter game screen
You can see there is a background of silhouetted skyscrapers. This background will smoothly and speedily scroll in the direction the player is flying. The player can fly left or right, and the background will scroll accordingly. However, the player cannot stay still horizontally. You can see that when the game is over (or has just been launched by the player), the message PRESS PLAY is displayed.
I have numbered some items of interest in the previous figure; let's run through them:
- There is a high score feature and for the first time, we will make the high score persistent. When the player quits the game...