C++20 for Lazy Programmers: Quick, Easy, and Fun C++ for Beginners

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12. Making an Arcade Game: Input, Collisions, and Putting It All Together

Will Briggs¹  

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Lynchburg, VA, USA

 

In this chapter, we’ll make our own 2-D arcade games, putting together what we’ve got so far for a time-wasting experience to make others goof off so we can shine – or something like that. The new things we need are better mouse and keyboard interaction and collisions of objects.

Determining input states

Mouse

We already can wait on a mouse click and get its coordinates…but arcade games wait for no man.

Suppose we want our weapon to fire continuously if a mouse button is down. We need a way to detect that the button is depressed, without stopping ...