XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Time for action – modify Game1 to generate rotating pieces

1. Update the HandleMouseInput() method in the Game1 class to add rotating pieces to the board by adding the following inside the if (mouseState.LeftButton == ButtonState.Pressed) block before gameBoard.RotatePiece() is called:

   gameBoard.AddRotatingPiece(x, y,
       gameBoard.GetSquare(x, y), false);

2. Still in HandleMouseInput(), add the following in the same location inside the if block for the right mouse button:

   gameBoard.AddRotatingPiece(x, y,
       gameBoard.GetSquare(x, y), true);

What just happened?

Recall that the only difference between a clockwise rotation and a counter-clockwise rotation (from the standpoint of the AddRotatingPiece() method) is a true or false in the final parameter. Depending ...