Menu scene

We will start this demo from a fresh project that you can find in the StartFiles folder. This project already contains all the assets and a basic folder setup that will help us organize our game files.

We will create a simple menu with two buttons, one to start the game and another one to exit the game. Let's start by creating a new class called MenuScene that inherits from GameScene.

public class MenuScene :GameScene

Fields

Our class will have four fields: a background, two buttons, and a SoundEffect class.

private GameSprite _background;
private GameButton _startButton;
private GameButton _exitButton;
private Song _backgroundMusic;

Constructor

The constructor remains empty but we need to pass the name of this scene to the base class.

public MenuScene():base("Menu"){}

Initialize

In this method, we will initialize the background and the buttons. The PivotPoint property of the buttons is set at the top-middle; this will make it easy to position them on the middle of the screen. We also add...