Information for developers

nmaFPS is completely coded in C++ hence using many OOP priniciples. The whole game is segregated into 14 classes. They are listed below with their purposes.

Class name	What it does.
Game	The game manager - it initialises the game and manages player and other objects' status in the game.
Player	Manages the player status.
Terrain	Loads the chosen terrain file and supplies the vertices for the polygons describing the terrain.
Event	Event handler - Polls for events and returns keyboard events of interest.
Config	Reads the configuration file and stores options and values in a map and supplies them as required.
Scorer	Handles the scoreboard in the game.
Viewer	The class that manages all the rendering. For an OpenGL implementation it intialises display lists and draws objects on the scene using those.
DynamicObject	The super-class of all objects flying about in the scene. Includes missiles, drones etc.
Enemy	Super-class of all your enemies.
Drone	The enemy drones - waiting to be blown to pieces by you.
Weapon	Super-class of your weapons.
Missile	The missiles that you fire.
Explosion	Every object ends its life in a big ka-booom.
Audio	Handles audio in the game.