Programming 2D Games

Planet

Fills the window with the image of a nebula and draws a planet over the nebula.

• The planet is drawn using a DirectX sprite with transparency.

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Sprite Border

Draws a spaceship at 1X scale and again at 8X scale.

• The 8X ship has a visible border because the source image does not have a minimum 1 pixel wide transparent border.

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Spaceship

Adds an animated spaceship to the Planet program from above.

• Demonstrates how to use the Image class to draw animated sprites.

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Spaceship Movement

A spaceship flies from left to right across the space scene while rotating and getting smaller.

• Demonstrates how to move and rotate an Image.
• Demonstrates how to make Images wrap around the window.

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Spaceship Control

An animated spaceship may be moved around the window by pressing the arrow keys. 

• Demonstrates how to get user input with the Input class.

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