is there something like a remove method, as I'm creating a Pong game. When I hit a brick I want it to dissapear or be removed. Is there something like that?


If you can help, thanks!

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Depends on what you're using to keep track of your brick. If you're using something like a List<Brick> collection, yes, there's a Remove method. You'll need to show us what you're doing for us to offer better feedback.

In general, you will keep track of everything in your world, for two reasons:
1) To simulate (run the "game play")
2) To render

The simplest way to keep track of everything is to keep a List<Brick> for the bricks, List<Ball> for the ball(s), etc. Then, when you simulate, you iterate over all the bricks and test if a ball is hitting the brick. If so, you add score, play a sound, and remove the brick from the list. Note that there are some rules about modifying collections while you're iterating using foreach(), so you may want to iterate using an integer index instead. Also note that when removing something in a list, every other thing after it slides down one notch, so to not miss the item after the item you remove, you will have to modify the index at that point.

When you render, you simply render each thing in each list. Because things that were hit are removed from the lists, they won't get rendered, and effectively no longer exist.

Thanks. But I have one problem, how would I know which brick in 'List<>' would be getting hit, then how would I call it?

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Generally, each time the ball moves, you will test it for intersection with each of the bricks, using some collision testing function. BoundingBox.Intersects() comes to mind.

It sounds to me like you actually ought to follow some of the beginner tutorials on this site, first, though, and perhaps also find a good book on C# programming in general to give you a more solid foundation to stand on before you try to build your own game from scratch.

I know enough of C# for now. But anyways... Thanks!

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