Improving the game and the code
Take a look at these suggested enhancements for the Timber!!! project. You can see the enhancements in action in the Runnable
folder of the download bundle:
- Speeding up the code: There is a part of our code that is slowing down our game. It doesn't matter for this simple game, but we can speed things up by putting the
sstream
code in a block that only executes occasionally. After all, we don't need to update the score hundreds of times a second! - Debugging console: Let's add some more text so we can see the current frame rate. As with the score, we don't need to update this too often. Once every hundred frames will do.
- Adding more trees in the background: Simply add some more tree sprites and draw them in whatever position ...
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