XNA Creators Club Online - beginner's guide 2d: chapter 9


	beginner's guide

2D Lessons

	1	Introducing the 2D Tutorial
	2	Creating the Game Project
	3	Adding Assets
	4	Drawing the Background
	5	Creating a Cannon
	6	Firing Cannonballs
	7	Adding Enemies
	8	Destroying Enemies
	9	Keeping Score
	x	Extra Credit - Community Tutorials

9. Keeping Score

Keep track of the player's score, increasing it on every successful UFO hit, and draw the score on the screen using a sprite-based font.

Step 1

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Create a font definition file, and load the file in code to create a SpriteFont object.

Step 2

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Create a new variable to track the player's score and increment it when cannonballs and enemies collide.

Step 3

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Construct a text string with the player's current score and draw it on the screen using the SpriteFont and SpriteBatch objects.