XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

The GameBoard class

Now that we have a way to represent pieces in memory, the next logical step is to create a way to represent an entire board of playing pieces.

The game board is a two-dimensional array of GamePiece objects, and we can build in some additional functionality to allow our code to interact with pieces on the game board by their X and Y coordinates.

The GameBoard class needs to:

• Store a GamePiece object for each square on the game board
• Provide methods for code using the GameBoard to update individual pieces by passing calls through to the underlying GamePiece instances
• Randomly assign a piece type to a GamePiece
• Set and clear the "Filled with water" flags on individual GamePieces
• Determine which pipes should be filled with water based ...