C# Win Forms Flappy Bird Hunting Game OOP Master Class in VS

Welcome to the Flappy Bird Hunting game master class. This course has been meticulously planned to challenge your views on the capabilities of windows form. What if we can make an interactive, fast paced, multi object shooting game in windows form with C# and nothing else? What if this game would spawn and respawn objects, allow the user to have crosshair on their mouse cursor, play music and register the hits on the birds and reward the players accordingly? Does this game sound impossible in windows form? Yep it kind of does, until you realise that someone as stubborn as you and me will have to find a way to do just that. Why? Well, why not.

Windows form is an amazing platform for learning programming. Its very basic what you see if what you get platform and most of the times we learn by making calculators, image viewers or other desktop style applications. Windows form is not made for games development but its an interesting challenge to be able to mimic or build similar games as the ones existed before in this limited platform only using the tools available inside of visual studio and not using any of the big game’s engines such as GODOT, Unity or Unreal.

I want to explore the hidden or less used features of windows form that can potentially be used to make actual games on the platform and for us to learn how to use C# programming in a more productive and effective way.

Although this is a games development course at the heart of it it’s a programming course. We will complete the course together by making a flappy bird hunting game that’s full of Challenges.

Features

1. Make a flappy bird hunting game using native C#, Windows Form, .Net and Visual Studio

2. Import sprite images to animate the bird, MOO, and coin in the game

3. Have a cross-hair to follow the player mouse cursor

4. Add the Media Player dependency for .Net through visual studio to play multiple Mp3 files together in the game

5. Allow players to mute or play the music and sound effects in the game

6. Load external sound effects to the game such as bullet sound and background music

7. Load external background images for the game and allow the user to pick a new background for their game play

8. Load lots of different birds in the game, this will be the bird sprites and we can animate each of them using separate sprite images from external folder

9. Create a BIRD CLASS and import that to the games window

10. Use the BIRD object in the game loop to check if they bird is dead or alive. If alive it will continue to fly within the bounds of the game and if DEAD it will spawn the coin animation and remove the current bird from the game.

11. Add a cow (MOO) that will be collecting the coins when it drops to the ground.

12. Play sound effects for MOO and the coin collection

13. Using different layers of elements to show the background, foreground, bird, MOO and cursor images in the game

14. Load and apply custom fonts to the game directly inside of Windows Form

15. Keep track of the score in the game and save the high score into a text file so it can be loaded and saved in permanent memory

16. Create a fun count down timer in the game and allow the users to hunt as many birds as they can within that time

17. Reward player with more bullets when they accurately shoot 5 birds in a row.

18. When the game is finished we can build a installation wizard to publish the game, this wizard will create a MSI and EXE file to be shared online or offline.

19. The installation process will be custom built, so it will contain the files we want to contain for the game and also include the icons for the file which will show with the desktop shortcut.

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Happy Hunting everyone.