Chapter 23
Useful Design Patterns for Game Development
Design patters are like blueprints for your code. They are systems you can use to complete tasks that are very similar in nature that arise while you are developing games. Just as STL data structures are reusable collections that can be used when needed to solve specific problems, design patterns can be utilized to solve logical problems in your code.
There are benefits to using design patterns in your game projects. First, they allow you to use a common language that many other developers will understand. This helps reduce the length of time it takes new programmers to get up to speed when helping on your projects because they might already be familiar with the concepts you have used ...
Get Learn C++ for Game Development now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
