Software Engineering and Computer Games

8.4. Critter method overrides

Table 8.1 gives you an overview of which critter methods we override to make the sample games provided with the Pop Framework.

Table 8.1. Special classes used in the Pop Framework.

Used in	Class name	Parent class	Overridden methods	New virtual methods
Basic classes	cCritterArmed	cCritter	animate, draw, fixPointerRefs, update	shoot
	cCritterArmedPlayer	cCritterArmed	collide, damage, draw, feellistener, shoot
	cCritterArmedRobot	cCritterArmed	update
	cCritterPlayer	cCritterArmedPlayer
	cCritterBullet	cCritter	collide, collidesWith, fixPointerRefs, update	initialize, isTarget
	cCritterBulletRubber	cCritterBullet	collide, update
	cCritterBulletSilver	cCritterBullet	damage
	cCritterWall	cCritter	clamp, collide, ...