Creating the project

We need to create a new project. To get started, create a new project, put it in the VS Projects folder, call it Run, and copy the fonts, graphics, music, shaders, sound folders and their contents into the project folder. We will discuss the folder contents as we proceed. There are some significant differences in the assets compared to previous projects: the shaders, for one, the music, for another, and the fact that there is just a single image file in the graphics folder that contains all the visuals for the entire game. The files in the shaders folder are empty placeholder files ready to have some publicly available code copied and pasted into them later in the project.

I have created a working project for each chapter so you can refer to what the code should look like at the end of each chapter. You will see the project folders called Run, Run2, Run3, and so on. You can therefore see the completed code for this chapter in the Run project folder.

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