Now that we've gotten a good understanding of why we would want to use design patterns, let's get set up the game engine that we will be using over the course of the book: the Mach5 engine. Now in order to get started, we will need to download the engine as well as the software needed to run the project. Perform the following steps:
- Open up your web browser of choice and visit the following website: https://beta.visualstudio.com/downloads/. Once there, move to the Visual Studio Community version on the left and then click on the Free download option, as shown in the following screenshot:
- If you get a window asking ...
