Game Development Patterns and Best Practices

The State pattern in action - StageManager

Another aspect of the Mach5 Engine that uses the State pattern is the M5StageManager class:

class M5StageManager { public:   friend class M5App;    //Registers a GameStage and a builder with the the StageManger   static void AddStage(M5StageTypes type, M5StageBuilder* builder);   //Removes a Stage Builder from the Manager   static void RemoveStage(M5StageTypes type);   //Clears all stages from the StageManager   static void ClearStages(void);   //Sets the given stage ID to the starting stage of the game   static void SetStartStage(M5StageTypes startStage);   //Test if the game is quitting   static bool IsQuitting(void);   //Test stage is restarting   static bool IsRestarting(void);  //Gets the pointer to the ...