Programming 2D Games

8

Text

ere are several ways we may add text to our games. One simple technique that we used

in earlier examples is to display a picture that contains prerendered text. Displaying text

as part of a picture works just ne for an opening screen, a winning or losing message, or

simple dialogs. In this chapter, we will examine two dierent techniques for displaying text.

e rst technique we will examine uses sprites to display individual letters from a larger

texture image.

8.1 Sprite Text

In a sprite text system, individual letters are contained in a larger texture image. e pro-

gram determines which part of the larger texture image to display ...