Chapter 6. Rendering Text
Displaying text in games is almost as important as displaying images and animations. In fact, some time ago many games were purely text-based. We're not going to go hardcore and make the player type "shoot 30 degrees" and get the "you've missed the bird" message as a result, but the game will definitely benefit from adding some text.
In this chapter, we are going to review the following topics:
- Adding text to the game using True Type font labels
- Updating labels, text, and performance considerations
- Creating and using bitmap fonts
- Using actions to create text effects
