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In this chapter, you will create an entirely new game: Space Rocks, shown in Figure 4-1 and inspired by the classic arcade game Asteroids. You will make extensive use of the framework you created in the previous chapter (the BaseGame, BaseScreen, and BaseActor classes) and add a few new features along the way. The most significant addition will be the ability to handle discrete events: actions that should occur only once each time a key is pressed.
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Although you can implement multiple interfaces, you can only extend a single class at a time.
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Stemkoski, L. (2018). Shoot-em-up games. In: Java Game Development with LibGDX. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3324-5_4
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