Design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design.
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How to manage millions of game objects with a Slot Map / Object Pool pattern in c++? [migrated]
I'm developing a game server for a video game called Tibia.
Basically, there can be up to millions of Objects, of which there can be up to thousands of deletes and re-creations as players interact ...
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How to design a multi-step game menu system?
I am getting started with game programming. I am designing a game that starts by taking you through a series of menu screens. I am interested in learning how this is typically structured in ...
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What's an optimal procedure to create a connected cyclic grid of nodes and edges for A* pathfinding
like the title says, I'm trying to create a grid of nodes that hold edges or connections to each other so I can perform A* algorithm to have objects traverse across them as seen in your standard RTS.
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How can I facilitate communication between “attack” and “movement” components?
I'm currently programming in Unreal, but this is more of a component oriented design question.
I'm trying to follow a component driven aproach, and I have currently achieved creating a movement ...
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How do I avoid writing Manager classes?
I seem to keep reading it's a bad idea to use XxxManager style classes in game engine programming, yet even when I try to avoid their use I always end up with something that holds all the actors/...
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Adding network support
I am trying to implement a simple game "Bulls and cows" in c#.
It is a final project of my university course about design patterns.
The target of the game is simple - try to guess the opponent number.
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Entity System and “composite” entities
I'm new to the Entity Component System pattern and there's something I cannot figure out. Let's say I have the following entity:
Player: {
Components: [
Position: {
x: 0,
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Entity-components pattern and memory management
I indent to use a level-entity-components hierarchy in my c++ game engine where level is just a placeholder for entities. However, since I'd like to setup all the levels at once (and thus entities and ...
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Categorizing Projectiles in an arcade shooter (multiple inheritance?)
I have been working on a simple arcade shooter in Java in the vein of missile command/space invaders. I've made a base Projectile class and have been extending other Projectile types from it. This ...
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Platformer command queue - not sure how to proceed
While trying to figure out how to implement platform agnostic input handling for a platformer, I've discovered the command pattern and I liked the idea so I wanted to take it a step further.
I got ...
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design / data structures
I'm working on a game which I'm writing in Javascript and then porting to iOS/Android via phonegap/cordova.
For the most part, I understand how to code and how to get what I want to happen, BUT I ...
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Java RPG class implementation (design pattern ?)
For my school project I'm making a little NFC based game on Android.
The concept is simple, on each phone you create a character and you can fight with other people through NFC.
The character will ...
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what is an elegant way to add a border to a hexagonal grid
At the moment in my hexagonal map generator, I am working from the idea of generating the grid, doing some nasty conditional logic to check if grid position is within the scope of the border and ...
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Sprite quickly disappears after rendering
I'm currently making space invaders and I'm using the game loop pattern as described here. I have an entity class from which there is a spaceship derived class. The base entity class contains all of ...
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Efficient way to store entities in javascript
I am trying to design a game from strach with Javascript.
It's a 2D game (a kind of Zelda on old devices).
I am trying to find an efficient way to store my data because I know I will have to face ...
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How should I efficiently clear and redraw my canvas with lots of animated sprites?
My current solution is to clear the entire canvas and redraw all sprites on every requestFrame(). This works but feels inefficient:
I only need to clear the part of the canvas made invalid by ...
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Unity State machine behavior practice
I have few scripting design question regarding the SMB. I am excited to apply the state machine pattern after learning about it to my players and monsters alike and was so happy that SMB is exactly ...
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Unity - Toolbox pattern is not safe
When I create a toolbox such is in this tutorial. How do I defend against breaking the pattern with multiple instances like this:
gameObject.AddComponent<Toolbox>();
gameObject.AddComponent<...
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In Unity, how do I correctly implement the singleton pattern?
I have seen several videos and tutorials for creating singleton objects in Unity, mainly for a GameManager, that appear to use different approaches to instantiating and validating a singleton.
Is ...
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Design patterns for live coding/script reloading [closed]
I would like to make C++/Lua combo and write scripts for a game with live script reloading. What design patterns should I be aware of so not to cause me unnecessary pain?
For example if I have a ...
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Flexible projectile system?
Projectiles need to accommodate timed, homing, linear, and arced behaviours and have single, cone, and splash effects on hit. What is a good pattern to accommodate these different behaviours that ...
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Behavior Tree with interrupted sequence
I'm reading up on Behavior Trees and would like to know how a good implementation for a scenario where the conditions can change or where a selector with a higher priority interrupts the current one.
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Tip on turn based game AI
I'm quite new in video game AI, and I'm trying to design an AI for a turn based game.
The rules are simple:
The battle field is represented by an NxM board.
The game is between two team, each team ...
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Where to store persistent player data?
I'm working on a 2d game, where the player can take damage and die. And upon death, player object gets destroyed.
However, some attributes of player shouldn't be affected by his death, such as lives, ...
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How to store renderer vertex / index data in scene graph objects?
I have a SceneNode class which contains a Mesh instance. The Mesh class stores client side information such as vertex and index arrays (before they're uploaded to the GPU). I also have an abstracted ...
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Is it a bad practice to add helper methods if the class is intended only for data? [closed]
For example, if I have something like:
class ItemData
{
public int cost;
public int level;
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public List<ItemData> childItems;
}
And I'm aiming to separate ...
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Better way of handling the relation between Bullet and Enemy
I was wondering how should I design this relation in terms of "better OOP"?
Should I have a Singleton EnemyManager which contains a list of enemies (EnemyList); then Bullets can access the EnemyList ...
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Where should I cast new bullets? [closed]
Should I
Cast new bullets from my Weapon class, which would test a flag when its updated that tells if mouse left is down, which is set by Input class
Cast new bullets from my Input class, which ...
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Separating Game Engine from game code in similar games, with versioning
I have a finished game, that I want to decline in other versions. These would be similar games, with more or less the same kind of design, but not always, basically things might change, sometimes ...
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How to design context menus based on whatever the object is?
I'm looking for a solution for a "Right Click Options" behaviour.
Basically any and every item in a game, when right clicked, can display a set of options based on whatever the object is.
Right ...
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Buttons implementation with regards to a basic Game Loop
As the title states I am creating a game with SFML being the only library used.
I am entirely unsure how to go about this.
I want the buttons to be activated by simple mouse clicks (when the mouse ...
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How to manage a vector of “Component” base class?
I'm trying to implement a component based design for a game i'm making. I decided to write it in c++ but i'm not very good at it. Coming from a java background I encountered a problem when trying to ...
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How can I handle invulnerability in an entity system?
I currently have an entity component system with messaging. The messages are delivered to each subscriber, but each subscriber gets their own copy, basically meaning that altering a message doesn't ...
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Handling AI with ECS in a turn based roguelike
I am trying to implement the Entity Component System pattern to use in a roguelike game. Right now, I have 3 systems. Input, AI, and Action. The input system basically is just a system used by the ...
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Design Pattern for card game objects
In my game, I will have more than 100 types of cards,
and before the actual game, player can select 6 of them and will be shown as 6 buttons on the scene.
The card have its own ID, card name, and a 3D ...
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How to develop and optimize the illusion of meaningful character development between the player and NPCs? [closed]
How to develop and optimize the illusion of meaningful character development between the player and NPCs?
It's very hard for a game developer to create unlimited dialogue options for just one NPC for ...
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Security-minded design patterns / paradigm for client/server application
I am working on a client/server application and am starting to take it from proof-of-concept to actual implementation. The client is an Android application and the server is in PHP. In similar ...
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Logical Dependencie Problem [closed]
I am working with Unity and C#, but my Problem is a more general programming problem. I am trying to keep things easy, but still make them global access able and easy to modify.
So I have a ...
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Implementing The Command Pattern - Undo And Entity References
I am trying to implement a replay/undo system for a turn based strategy game I am currently working on. A sample move could go as follows:
1. A players select a pawn and gives it an attack command.
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Large scale iterative design
Typically in game development, linear development (waterfall model) is riddled with obstacles that drain the programmer's sanity (game turned out horrid, can't redesign). Enter iterative design. ...
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Observer pattern for clickable 2D Elements?
So i am currently thinking about the best way to handle and implement clickable 2D menu elements in a very simple DirectX Game.
I very much like the idea of having subscribers to a event where they ...
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Design Pattern for “Default Object”
I'm making a first person dungeon crawler like Eye of the Beholder.
During execution, I have a Map object. It contains Cell objects. Anc each Cell contains, at most, four Wall objects.
The Wall ...
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Update function - design patterns [closed]
I started reading about game development design patterns and from my experience there are 2 options for update methods. The first one receive from the game loop and delta time of this update and ...
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Implementing FSM on multiple class UNITY3D
I am recently implementing design patterns on my project, while researching around I came across many advance techniques like HFSM ,Behaviour trees.
I did implemented behavior trees wherever required ...
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How should entities in a game reference each other?
I've been reading a lot about design patterns, but in using these patterns there's one question that I keep coming back to. How should my entities access information about each other?
Let's say I'm ...
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Position problems instantiating lasers at the sides of a space ship
I'm developing a demo of a 3D Space Ship game concept in Unity, just for learning purposes.
I have a cube representing my space ship in the scene, and a laser prefab that is instantiated at the 2 ...
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Is Minecraft component-based or does it have class for every block? [closed]
I'm wondering if Minecraft has class for every type of block or blocks are just IDs in code.
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And what about data like transparency, resistance, hardness, tool, etc? Are they hardcoded or stored ...
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Organizing a Transform class to internally use quaternions
So, I'm interested in building a Transform class similar to the one used in Unity Engine, but in C++. My intent is for it to be user-friendly to change the position, rotation, and scale of a variable ...
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Elegant ways to handle rendering with DirectX 11
I'm looking for a design pattern that's going to help me to elegantly handle the rendering of my game objects.
Lots of game development guides talk about how to handle the game objects themselves, ...
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Command Ordering Architecture of Dwarf Fortress
What is the most elegant way to implement a command ordering system for AI? for example in dwarf fortress when you mark a forested area for wood cutting, the dwarfs then would do the following ...
