14.3. The Worms game
The Worms game isn’t so much a game as it is a wacky-world testing ground for a bunch of tricks.
The most obvious new wrinkle is that, we have ‘worms’ that are made up by linking together cCritterWormSegment objects with cForceObjectSpringRod forces.
Another visually striking feature is that we’re using a cSpriteLoop for the player’s sprite; this means that the sprite changes appearance every third of a second. If you comment out the line #define PLAYERSPRITELOOP at the start of the gameworms.cpp file and recompile, the player sprite will now use a cSpriteDirectional that changes its color to match the direction it’s pointing in.
The Worms code does some other things. The cCritterWormsRivalBullet objects run away from the ...
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