Introducing the Scrolling Shooter project
The player's objective in this game is simply to destroy as many aliens as possible. Let's go in to some more details about the features the game will have. Look at the starting screen for the Scrolling Shooter project in the next image:
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 just been launched by the player) you can see the message Press Play.
I have numbered some items of interest in the previous image, 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 and restarts later the high score will still be there. The player can even turn their device off and come...