Chapter 5. Spawning Enemies, Coins, and Power-Ups
One of the most enjoyable and creative aspects of game development is building the game world for your players to explore. Our young project is starting to resemble a playable game after adding the controls; the next step is to build more content. We will create additional classes for new enemies, collectible coins, and special power-ups that give Pierre Penguin a boost as he navigates the perils of our world. We can then develop a system to spawn increasingly difficult patterns of these game objects as the player advances.
The topics in this chapter include the following:
- Adding the Power-up Star
- A new enemy—the Mad Fly
- Another terror—Bats!
- Guarding the ground with the Blade
- Adding coins
- Testing the new game objects
