SFML Game Development

The state stack

One way to visualize the flow of the game screens would be to picture a finite state machine of all the screens and how they trigger each other's appearance. However, while that works and is logically accurate, we broaden the concept of the active state into a stack.

Note

Finite State Machine (FSM): While this is a well known concept across the world of computation, we will shortly describe the state machine as a collection of states that ensures that only one state is active at any given time. The transition of the current state into a new one is always triggered by a condition or a timer. So, for any state of the FSM, there will be a determined set of triggers that will activate new states when appropriate.

Now, turning the active ...