Time for action – generating the track

To generate the track for our Mars Runner, perform the following steps:

1. 1. Add the Helper Methods region, along with the GenerateTrack() method to the MarsTrack class as follows:

   #region Helper Methods
   private int[] GenerateTrack(int length)
   {
       Random rand = new Random();
   
       int[] track = new int[length];
       for (int x = 0; x < length; x++)
       {
           track[x] = 0;
                   
           if (x < 5)
               continue;
   
           if (x > length - 6)
               continue;
   
           if (track[x - 1] != 1)
           {
               if (rand.Next(0, 4) == 0)
               {
                   track[x] = 1;
               }
           }
       }
   
       return track;
   }
   #endregion

What just happened?

We loop through each segment of the track, beginning with the assumption that each segment will represent solid ground (a value of zero). If we are within the first or last five segments of the track, we continue the loop, we do not want to have crater segments...