Software Engineering and Computer Games

Chapter 18. Interesting worlds

In this chapter we'll discuss some ways of enriching a game by changing the world. We'll discuss these four additions to a world.

• Side- scroller . Make the world long and thin and have your player move through it.

• Gravity . Put in gravitational forces.

• Walls . Put walls into the world.

• Trails . Use color to mark out a trail the player can move on.