Starward Rogue:XML - Overall Organization
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Overall Organization
There are a few key words that are important to understand for purposes of the API documentation.
GameEntity
- This is most things in the game. But, specifically:
- GameEntityCategory.Shot
- These are actual individual bullets moving around. They might be part of some larger pattern or who knows, but the important thing is that this is one bullet moving around.
- GameEntityCategory.Ship
- Good or bad, this is either a player or an enemy.
- Ships CANNOT attack directly. They have to have guns mounted on them (see below), and then the guns do the attacking.
- If a ship looks like it has no gun, it is using an invisible gun.
- GameEntityCategory.ItemPickup
- These are actual item pickups that you can step on and pick up. You can also drop these.
- If you are doing item design, probably this is where you will do that.
- GameEntityCategory.Obstacle
- This is a very strange category and likely you won’t do much with. These include things ranging from mines to interior walls to those floor-mounted lasers to the shootable and bombable wall bits, etc.
