Software Engineering and Computer Games

Exercises

Exercise 10.1: Starting in a zoomed-in mode

Comment in the last line of the cGameDambuilder::initializeView, rebuild and run the Pop program, and switch to the Game | Dambuilder. Note that it is in a zoomed-in mode. Is it still zoomed-in if you switch back to Spacewar? Why not?

Exercise 10.2: A multi-level game

Often people like to write games which have more than one level. To get you started the Pop Framework provides an int _level member of cGame which is initialized to 1 in the constructor (not everything has start counting with 0)! The reset method returns _level to 1 in case it’s changed.

To use level, in your adjustGameParameters you’d look for some trigger condition, such as score > 100, and have a block of code like this: ...