Creating Colorful Games - Learning C# by Programming Games - page 59

Part II
Creating Colorful Games

Fig. II.1 A screenshot of the game Painter

In the following chapters, we are going to develop a game called Painter (see
Fig. II.1 ). While developing this game, we'll also introduce a few new techniques
that are very useful when programming games, such as organizing instructions in
classes and methods, conditional instructions, iteration, and much more.
The goal of the Painter game is to collect paint of three different colors: red, green
and blue. The paint is falling from the sky in cans that are kept floating by balloons,
and you must make sure that each can has the right color, before falling through the
bottom of the screen. You can change the color of the paint falling down by shooting
a paint ball of the desired color at the falling can. You can select the color that you
shoot with by using the R, G, and B keys on the keyboard. You can shoot a paint ball