Question

I’d like to be able to use GameTime without explicitly typing its name each time in all of my methods’ parameters. It just doesn’t look so good in code. How can I do that?

Answer 1

I just found out that GameTime doesn’t change throughout main Update method execution, so I can safely use a copy of it in a local GameTime variable, like so:

public class Game1 : Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game
{
    public GameTime gt;

    /* ... */    

    protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime)
    {
        gt = gameTime;

    // the rest of the Update method
    }
}