Game Programming Class4

Came Components About components Application Overview

Game Components are reusable and easy to add to a game Game Components

   * GameComponent Class
   * DrawGameComponent Class

http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2006/08/31/734204.aspx Sprite class IntroPacManComponent.zip Project that refactors the pacman class into two classes Sprite.cs DrawableSprite.cs PacMan.cs Console Class Separate IntroGameLibrary Project to help Encapulate Reusable Code. IntroConsole.zip IntoGameLibrary.zip

IntoGameLibrary/GameConsole.cs To Add the Component to the Game we make an delclare in the game class Then we need to add the componnet to the Game Components Collection.

           GameConsole gameConsole;

       public Game1()
       {
           graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this);
           Content.RootDirectory = "Content";

           gameConsole = new GameConsole(this);
           this.Components.Add(gameConsole);
       }
           

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