Chapter 3. The Game Object and the Default Game Loop
When you create a new project, many things happen behind the scenes, and many features to help drive the game available to you. In this chapter, you learn about these features, including:
• The game class
• The standard game loop
• Game components
Up until now, you’ve created new projects and added some code to do other fancy things, but you haven’t taken a step back to look at the default game template. Now is a good time to take a look at what is provided for you automatically and the other features available.
What Is in a New Project?
Open Visual Studio and create a new Game Studio 4.0 Windows Game project. Notice that your main project includes two code files (program.cs and game1.cs), ...
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