Learning Design Patterns with Unity

Preface

Design patterns have been around for a very, very long time (decades in fact), lighting the way through dark and troubled waters where scale, flexibility, access, communication, and optimization try to capsize your best coding efforts at every turn. You’ll see these concepts taught and embedded in most, if not all, Computer Science curriculums around the world, but they’re conspicuously missing from many a young game programmers toolkit (mine included when I first started out).

Maybe these skills are traditionally taught by more experienced developers and mentors over the course of a programmer’s career. Maybe games are supposed to be fun to make, leaving the more serious work to the engineers who specialize in creating large accounting ...