Design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design.
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Why are MVC & TDD not employed more in game architecture?
I will preface this by saying I haven't looked a huge amount of game source, nor built much in the way of games.
But coming from trying to employ 'enterprise' coding practices in web apps, looking at ...
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What are some programming design patterns that are useful in game development? [closed]
I have a few books on Design Patterns, and have read some articles, but cannot intuitively figure out which programming design patterns would be useful in game development.
For example, I have a book ...
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MVC-like compartmentalization in games?
I was contemplating the design of a game (translating a boardgame to the computer, specifically, which I suppose is relevant in this case) and it occurred to me that it might make sense to build the ...
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Game Components, Game Managers and Object Properties
I'm trying to get my head around component based entity design.
My first step was to create various components that could be added to an object. For every component type i had a manager, which would ...
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How to Interpolate between two game states?
What is the best pattern to create a system that all the objects positions to be interpolated between two update states?
The update will always run at the same frequency, but I want to be able to ...
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“The Game Object” - and component-based design
I've been working on some hobby projects the last 3-4 years. Just simple 2d and 3d games. But lately I have started a bigger project. Soo in the last couple of months I've been trying to design a game ...
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Designing a ResourceManager class
I've decided I want to write a central ResourceManager/ResourceCache class for my hobby game engine, but am having trouble designing a caching scheme.
The idea is that the ResourceManager has a soft ...
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Retrieving components from game objects (entities)
Using C# and XNA 4, I've made the decision to go for an entity-component based design for my game after reading such posts as this and this, but I'm now struggling to find how to retrieve components ...
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3D game: is a spatial index necessary?
I'm working on a 3D space simulation game in C++.
I've read that in many cases games use spatial indexing (hashing) that allows to quickly detect collisions, find out what entities to draw and so ...
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How to avoid the GameManager god object?
I just read an answer to a question about structuring game code. It made me wonder about the ubiquitous GameManager class, and how it often becomes an issue in a production environment. Let me ...
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Per-Frame Function Calls versus Event Driven Messaging in Game Design
The traditional game design, as I know it, uses polymorphism and virtual functions to update game objects states. In other words, the same set of virtual functions are called in regular(ex: per-frame) ...
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Dictionary of common names for code objects [closed]
I'm looking for a common dictionary of terms (much like design patterns have a common language for how things interact) that are specific to games.
For instance, if I'm making a game of pong with a ...
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Profiling and containing memory per system
I have been interesting in profiling and keeping a managed memory pool for each subsystem, so I could get statistic on how much memory was being used in something such as sounds or graphics. However, ...
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Capitalizing on JavaScript's prototypal inheritance
JavaScript has a class-free object system in which objects inherit properties directly from other objects. This is really powerful, but it is unfamiliar to classically trained programmers. If you ...
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Database structure for a trading cards video game (TCG)
Just started and after pondering with registered users' table everything came to a halt.
So far I've got:
+----------------------+
| tblUsers |
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| ...
