Programming 2D Games

9

Enhanced Appearance

In Chapter 9, we look at dierent techniques for enhancing the appearance of our game.

ese techniques include giving our game a feeling of depth and adding user interface ele-

ments. Aer completing this chapter, the reader will have learned several techniques for

enhancing the appearance of 2D games.

9.1 Bitmap Scrolling

In our previous space-scene examples, the background image is stationary and the ship

moves around on the screen. A dierent visual appearance can be achieved by keeping the

ship stationary in the middle of the screen and scrolling the background. e background

will scroll forever in whatever direction we ...