Loading and Rendering a Font

You could load a bitmapped font into a Sprite object and render it by treating each character as a frame in the font “animation” sheet. In fact, this is exactly what we will do. But there is too much configuration and custom code to be duplicated that way. Instead, a new subclass of Sprite will do nicely. The new class will be called Font and will inherit its basic functionality from Sprite and add some of its own new features.