3.6. Using the Pop Framework

In this section we’ll talk about how to use the Pop Framework to make a game of your own. To be quite concrete, we’ll work through the steps necessary to use the Pop Framework to make a version of one of the simplest and oldest arcade games, the Space Invaders game of the early 1980s.

Extending the Pop Framework

To use the Pop Framework to create a computer game, you take over all of the Pop code and then make some changes to it: either by changing some of the files, by adding some new files of your own, or both.

The fact that this is fairly easy to do means that the Pop code is actually a framework, where a framework is, once again, a collection of powerful code that is written in such a way that it is easy to ...

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