Summary

This was probably the most difficult chapter up to now, as it combines all the game-related features we have developed in earlier chapters: resources, world, entities, input, and commands. Despite all the things to consider, it became apparent that the existing framework made a lot of new tasks simple to achieve.

In this chapter, you learned about essential gameplay mechanics and their interaction. We added projectiles to represent bullets and homing missiles. We let enemies spawn, follow certain movement patterns, fire in regular intervals, and drop pickups upon destruction. Collision detection and response was implemented, and we discussed performance considerations. Eventually, we managed the world's update cycle, and cleaned up destroyed entities.

Now that the game foundation has been built, we are ready to add more graphical content. In the next chapter, we are going to add a variety of visual effects to improve the appearance of our game.