Why is it awesome?

We will look into a very effective and efficient way of separating graphics from programming. Computer code should be as clear as possible. With fancy decorative graphics, this is not always possible. Therefore, we create fancy graphics for the player to see while they're playing, and we'll create another set of simpler graphics for the computer to work with. With only a few scripts, we can tie these graphics together to create a unified experience.

Your Hotshot objectives

We will start by creating some graphics so that we can see what we are doing. Then we will get into some scripting, and eventually tie all the bits and pieces together to create a finished game. In this project, we will deal with the following steps:

Mission checklist

We will use some existing bitmap images for this project. We need to edit these images, so an image editing program might be useful. This program could be Adobe Photoshop (http://www.adobe.com/downloads/), GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/), or even MS Paint. It doesn't really matter, as long as you feel comfortable using it.

The following screenshot shows the GIMP editor: