[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 17 ■ Enhancing Game Play: Creating a Scoring Engine, Adding Treasure and an Enemy Auto-Attack Engine
Figure 17-49. Add calls to loadBullet(), loadCheese() and loadEnemy() to end of “move Enemy offscreen” else structure
Next, let’s add a unique twist to our game play, and have a Projectile object, in the form of a Cream Cheese Ball,
that will generate positive points if the InvinciBagel is able to put himself in a position to get hit by it.
Shooting Cream Cheese Balls: Different Bullet Types
To accommodate different types of projectiles, we will need to declare a new boolean variable, which we will name
bulletType, so that we can have deadly projectiles (iBullet) and healthy projectiles (iCheese). In the .update()
method, right before you set callAttack equal to true to start the attack sequence, you will set this bulletType variable
equal to the result of a call to the .nextBoolean() method made off of the randomNum Random object. The Java code,
which is shown highlighted in Figure 17-50, should look like the following Java statements:
boolean bulletType = false;
bulletType = randomNum.nextBoolean();
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