Game Development Patterns and Best Practices

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "I’m going to update the ChasePlayerComponent class that already exists in the EngineTest project."

A block of code is set as follows:

class Animal{  public:    virtual void Speak(void) const //virtual in the base class    {      //Using the Mach 5 console print      M5DEBUG_PRINT("...\n");    }};

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set ...