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In game development, a “sprite” is simply a 2D image place somewhere on the screen. They generally make up the majority of a 2D game, and in a 3D game they may be used for the targeting reticule, the heads up display, etc. We are going to create a simple Sprite class that will handle [...]

The “Set” accessor in the Component’s “Parent” property should be changed to the following to avoid a condition where a component’s would be “orphaned” (have its “parent” property set to null and not appear in any GameScreen’s list of components) when its parent is set to the same value.

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public GameScreen Parent
{
get [...]