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Game Development Patterns and Best Practices
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Game Development Patterns and Best Practices

by John P. Doran, Matt Casanova
April 2017
Beginner to intermediate
394 pages
9h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Decoupling Code via the Factory Method Pattern

Every project and every game design is going to change. One of the goals of object-oriented programming is to program with that change in mind. This means writing flexible and reusable code so that, when changes happen, the project doesn't fall apart. Unfortunately, the requirements are never fully known and the vision of the designer is never 100% complete. The good news is that newly added features may interact with old features in unexpectedly fun ways, leading to unplanned features being created, which can make for a completely different, and more enjoyable, game.

In the worst-case scenario, the game design may not be fun at all, which can lead to drastic changes in game object types, object ...

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