Games That Ship With Delphi: BUG Swat

Coding too much? Having too many bugs in your code? Who does not have at least one? Take a break from debugging your code swat some bugs!Swat is a classic addictive arcade game - smash bugs with your mouse - when you fail to remove them from your code :)

The objective is to score as many points as possible by destroying bugs. As time passes more and more bugs appear on the screen. Use your mouse to control the swatter and click to splat!

Since this will not solve your code bugs, take a look at: Debugging Techniques in Delphi and Bug Prevention and What To Do When You Find a Bug in Your Program.

Delphi BUG Swat

Delphi XE ships with a game called "SWAT".

The source code to "Delphi Meteor", can be located under the "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\RAD Studio\8.0\Samples\Delphi\VCL\Swat" folder (on a default Windows XP install).

By exploring the Delphi BUG SWAT source code you will learn how to program:

• Delphi records,
• Canvas drawing,
• Working with resources,
• Keyboard events,
• TTimer, ...

Know a better way to learn programming by playing games? :)

p.s.
There are a few more games that ship with Delphi under the "samples" folder.