[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 11 ■ Moving Your Action Figure in 2D: Controlling the X and Y Display Screen Coordinates
As you can see in Figure 11-5, your code is error-free, which means that you have copied your sprite assets into
the proper /src folder, and you now have more than a dozen digital image assets installed for use in your game.
Figure 11-5. Create a private void loadImageAssets() method, add the iB0 through iB8 and splashScreen Image objects
Now that the assets you need to call your Bagel() constructor method that you created in Chapter 10 are in
place, we can move on to creating a method that holds our game asset creation Java code. This amounts to calling
the constructor methods for each of the Actor subclasses we eventually create, the first of which was the Bagel class,
which we created first so that we can start to work on getting our primary character moving around the screen.
Creating Your InvinciBagel Bagel Object: .createGameActors()
The next step in the game actor creation process after loading your image assets is to call the constructor method for
the game actor. To be able to do this, you must first subclass either the Actor superclass (for fixed game actors, which
could be called “props”) or the Hero superclass (for motion game actors, such as the Hero, his enemies, and the like).
I am going to create a .createGameActors() method to hold these instantiations, because even though initially there is
only going to be one line of code inside of the body of this method, eventually, as the game becomes more and more
complex, this method will serve as a “roadmap” regarding what game actor assets we have installed. This method will
be declared as a private method, since the InvinciBagel class will be controlling the creation of these game actors, and
will feature a void return type, because the method doesn’t return any values to the calling entity (the .start() method
in this case). Inside of the method we’ll call the Bagel() constructor method, using some “placeholder” SVG path data,
as well as a 0,0 initial X,Y screen location, and finally, the nine sprite cels using a comma-delimited list at the end of
the constructor method call. The method body and object instantiation will use the following three lines of Java code:
private void createGameActors() {
iBagel = new Bagel("M150 0 L75 500 L225 200 Z", 0, 0, iB0,iB1,iB2,iB3,iB4,iB5,iB6,iB7,iB8);
}
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