Game Programming Tutorial – Beginners Action Game
Resetting The Game
The first thing we are do here is add a classwide boolean variable so that this code will not execute multiple times so place this code in the interface in the Game.h file.
The reason I added this was because if multiple balloons exit the screen at the same time the movementThroughTopOfScreen method is executed multiple times.
Now add this if statement into the movementThroughTopOfScreen method.
{
resetButtonVisible = YES;
The reason I added this was because if multiple balloons exit the screen at the same time the movementThroughTopOfScreen method is executed multiple times.
Now we’re going to add a semi-transparent image covering the screen.
[playFieldSprite addChild:backgroundImage];
An added side effect of running this code is that touches are prevented from reaching any ballons.
Now we’re going to add a button to the center of the screen.
resetButton.x = self.width/2-resetButton.width/2;
resetButton.y = self.height/2-resetButton.height/2;
resetButton.fontName = @"Marker Felt";
resetButton.fontSize = 20;
resetButton.text = @"Reset Game";
Notice that in creating this button we needed to provide an image, however the animation causing the image to shrink is all built in to the Sparrow Framework. As you can see the properties of buttons are very similar to text fields.
Now we’re going to add an event listener to the button.
forType:SP_EVENT_TYPE_TRIGGERED];
The triggered event occurs when the button is pressed.
Add the button to the playing field with this code:
Now we’re going to create the onResetButtonTriggered event which runs when the button is pressed.
This method is pretty simple we just clear the screen, and then make things just as they were when the game first started.
And that’s the end, when you run this tutorial you should see a reset button and be able to restart the game after a ballon exits through the top of the screen like in the screenshot below:
You can download the completed project here with extensive comments in the Game implementation file.
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