Chapter 7. Timers and Animation: The Lunar Lander

When you move to a graphical interface, you can write many new kinds of programs. Games and animations are especially interesting to write. In this chapter, you will write a simple arcade game, with all the features you might expect from such a game. Along the way, you’ll master techniques used for writing animations in C#. In this chapter you will learn how to

• Read individual key presses.

• Work with multiple images.

• Use the timer object to simplify animation.

• Move objects around on the screen.

• Detect collisions between objects.