{"id":789,"date":"2025-05-18T22:59:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T12:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=789"},"modified":"2025-05-18T22:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T12:59:49","slug":"lets-make-a-retro-game-ep7-display-our-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"Lets Make a Retro Game Ep7: Display our Background"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode, we are going to start making our game \u201cMega Blast\u201d, so to get things started,d we are going to go through:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Initialising our graphics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Displaying the graphics on both our title screen and the main screen of the game<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I have included the complete code for this section, so you can follow through the various steps without having to worry about typing in code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"422\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-132.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-132.png 560w, https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-132-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-133.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-791\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The supplied code has two folders, Start, where we start in this episode, and End, the final code and a copy of the ROM file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video associated with this episode is located\u00a0here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lets Make a Retro Game - Episode 7 - Displaying our Background\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJ9cPO4e2JU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the full article text <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tony-cruise\/ElectricAdventuresArchive\/blob\/main\/LMARG\/LMARG-EP7-DisplayingOurBackground.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> and the support source code files <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tony-cruise\/ElectricAdventuresArchive\/blob\/main\/LMARG\/LMARG-EP7.zip\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, we are going to start making our game \u201cMega Blast\u201d, so to get things started,d we are going to go through: I have included the complete code for this section, so you can follow through the various steps without having to worry about typing in code. The supplied code has two folders,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lets-make-a-retro-game"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}