The GamePiece class
The GamePiece
class represents an individual pipe on the game board. One GamePiece
has no knowledge of any other game pieces (that is, the responsibility of the GameBoard
class), but it will need to be able to provide information about the pipe to objects that use the GamePiece
class. Our class has the following requirements:
Identify the sides of each piece that contain pipe connectors
Differentiate between game pieces, which are filled with water and which are empty
Allow game pieces to be updated
Automatically handle rotation, by changing the piece type to the appropriate new piece type
Given one side of a piece, provide the other sides of the piece in order to facilitate determining how water can flow through the game board
Provide a rectangle that will be used when the piece is drawn to locate the graphic for the piece on the sprite sheet
Identifying a GamePiece
While the sprite sheet contains 13 different images, only 12 of them are actual game pieces (the last one is an...