Bizzy Bees XNA to DirectX/DirectXTK – Part 8

This is part of a blog series… if you came here directly you might want to read the introduction first.
 
Now we have a fully functioning game, but we need to add some final touches to it to make it just that little bit better.
The things we are going to do are:
Add lives – so that you can fail 3 times before it’s game over Add some bees to the HUD to represent the lives and animate these bees Add a little rainbow flower to the HUD to make things prettier Speed things up after a while to make the game harder as we go along Enable game restart Adding lives Let’s start with the lives.
1. Add a new private int field in the BizzyBeeGame class called lives and initialize it to 3 in BizzyBeeGame::ResetGame()
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