Sams Teach Yourself Windows® Phone 7 Game Programming in 24 Hours

Hour 24. The Black Hole Game

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Adding the finishing touches

• Modifying the GameModule interface class

• MySoundEffect class

• GameOver class

• OptionsModule class

• TitleScreen class

• Game1 class

• MassiveObject class

• PlayingModule class

This hour puts the finishing touches on the Black Hole game that has really been in the works, more or less, for the past five hours. We first explored GUI programming back in Hour 20, “Creating a Graphical User Interface.” Then we learned about finite states in Hour 21, “Finite State Gameplay,” followed by calculating gravity in Hour 22, “The Physics of Gravity.” These techniques are useful in any sort of game, and we’re using them here for the final game with some pretty ...