Learning Android Game Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your First Android Game

14. Scoring and Collisions

Scores are key to most games, giving the players feedback on how well they are playing the game and a measurement they can strive to improve.

Scoring systems can be very complicated or very simple. A simple scoring system should at least meet these needs:

• Keep track of the current score as a game is being played

• Record some number of highest scores

• Display the current score to the player

• Display the list of highest scores

More complicated scoring systems could include these functions:

• Keep track of scores for players on other (connected) clients, perhaps with ranking systems and tournament play.

• Keep track of scores for multiple players on a single device.

• Record the time and date of high scores.

• Provide ...