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Belt Commander: Game Recap
Belt Commander is an action game in which you control a spaceship that is traveling through an
asteroid belt. Destroying asteroids and alien flying saucers rewards the player with points. During
play, a power-up occasionally floats onto the screen, giving the player a chance to heal some
damage, earn some bonus points, or upgrade weapons. This is a relatively fast-paced game with
simple interactions. Let's take a look at the opening screen of the game, shown in Figure 12-2 .
Figure 12-2. Belt Commander's opening screen
In Figure 12-2 , we see the first screen of the game. We have a title at the top of the screen as well
as a number of buttons. The Facebook, Tweet, and Leaderboards buttons enable the various social
functions that we discussed in Chapter 9. The extras button allows the user to configure the game
and purchase new parts of the game. How purchases are handled is described in Chapter 10. For
this chapter, we will assume all of the extras are purchased. The Play button will take the user into
the action part of the game, as shown in Figure 12-3 .
 
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