XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Adding the player

So we now have a working tile map, and what looks like a piece of a robotic vehicle that we can move around on the map. There are a number of issues right now, however:

• The robot we can move around simply floats around without animation or direction.
• Our floating sprite does not obey any kind of screen or world limitations. It will happily fly off into oblivion if you hold down the movement keys.
• Similarly, the sprite is not blocked by wall tiles. It will float right over them.
• Moving the sprite to the right or bottom edges of the screen doesn't scroll the camera to follow the sprite. Our camera is currently controlled by a separate set of movement keys.

In order to begin addressing these issues, we need to construct a class for the ...