Level System Overview

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Coding Overview

NOTE: The spawning stuff is temporary for now, until proper customer spawning code is provided

So we got LevelService, which has some private variables and public methods

Below is the constructor for the LevelService, which initialise some private variables, and most importantly registers some listeners.

The levelControl() method called by the startLevel event currently takes one parameter. All it does for now is limit the number of customers that spawn.

This is in the MainGameScreen class, at the bottom of the constructor. The first two statements become more relevant in later photos.

This is from the LevelComponent class. The event startSpawning, if you remember, is triggered in LevelService by levelControl()

This is what the event startSpawning calls. This method basically just ensures that all private variables are reset, but most importantly, enabled spawning through the toggleNowSpawning() method.

Speaking of, here is the toggleNowSpawning() method

Now the reason why I use a Component in the first place is because the Entity class has a very nice method which is create for asynchronous code which can be called constantly (I didn't know about scheduledEvents)

And finally, in the create() method in ForestGameArea, the event spawnCustomer is registered (the event triggered during the hijacked update() method).

And this is what the spawnCustomer() method looks like, again, in the ForestGameArea class (it was conveniently already here)