Game Development Patterns and Best Practices

Introduction to Design Patterns

You've learned how to program, and you've probably created some simple games at this point, but now you want to start building something larger. Perhaps you have tried building an interesting project but you felt like the code was hacked together. Maybe you worked with a team of programmers and you couldn't see eye-to-eye on how to solve problems. Maybe your code didn't integrate well, or features were constantly being added that didn't fit with your original design. Maybe there wasn't a design to begin with. When building larger game projects, it's important that you break apart your problems, focus on writing quality code, and spend your time solving problems unique to your game, as opposed to common programming ...