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Design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design.

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Object pools are great. They are fun to make, save you a lot of memory and fps. But as my projects grow in size and complexity it gets harder and harder to work with them. If you only have a couple of ...
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I have a working P2P non real time (think Civ 5) multiplayer strategy game using deterministic lockstep for the game model, but lag can really cause inconvenience. To clarify, units don't move in real ...
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I have created a dynamic library that contains all the tools I want my game executable to have. Additionally, I want to create a world editor/tools for my engine to be more user-friendly. I'm ...
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I'm using SDL2 in my game engine and I'm trying to figure out how I can prevent having a monolithic control statement like this: ...
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I am reading the amazing Game Engine Architecture 3rd edition by Jason Gregory, but I have trouble understanding the singleton part, more particularly the part dealing with subsystem start/shutdown... ...
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Sorry if this isn’t the proper spot to ask, but something I struggle to wrap my head around is the benefit of breaking down code into smaller pieces on the surface it seems to make sense I think you ...
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I'm planning to make a Class for RPG game's character skill. But the problem is that the skills need to be classified by multiple criteria. Below are the criteria for skills. Independent / dependent ...
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I'm working on a relatively simple game, but even simple games have a lot of moving parts, and I'm running into some architecture issues. Just to be clear, everything works fine, but it feels dirty, ...
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I am making a tile based roguelike game with different objects in the world, like Doors, Security Cameras, Storage Shelves. With that, there are objects that have an inventory, can detect the player, ...
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As I've been learning about ECS one thing that gets me confused are things like input which in my case has usually been some singleton that gets polled or in one project was event based where code can ...
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I'm in the process of refactoring my camera code the goal is to try and simplify things using a struct instead of a class or at the very least try something new since I always jump straight to classes/...
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I found this post for designing a camera system the post mentions having a manager where you could register and set different cameras such as debug, player, script, etc and I kind of like this ...
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I was working on a physics-based plug-in/ extension for Unity water which would essentially be another component in Unity water. The goal of this extension would be to integrate interactive physics ...
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I looked at some entity component systems, and noticed that they sometimes list static polymorphism as a feature, and ECSs and data oriented programming seem to be touted as holy grail of modern game ...
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I would have liked to comment on this answer, but I don't have enough reputation so I had to open this new one. The issue with it (and with the rest of the answers) is that it doesn't work well if ...
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I am developing a game engine in C++ (for an idea of what kind of design I'm going for, think of ROBLOX, if you're familiar with that) and I need help with a problem I have. So basically, the objects ...
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I decided I would develop a game engine in c++, so I was thinking about different ways of handling objects. I also have experience with ROBLOX, so I know that it uses an object-oriented design as ...
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How? I think I still don't properly understand how composition in Godot works. So, as far as I know, you 'compose' stuff in Godot, right? Like, if you want to make a rock you create a mesh node with ...
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Shooter games : Either Blue/teal/azure or other shades of blue and transparent or gray and transparent MMO games : Either blue and transparent or shades of Brown+Gold or a very dark red, so dark it's ...
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I'm very bad at math, ridiculously so. I'm making attributes that work as multipliers. 1 Agility means : animation speed * agility, ...
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I'm writing a game where deliveries are made to specific people. These people act in different ways depending on what the delivery is. At times one character might ask the player to make a delivery to ...
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I am working on a java 2d game. Keeping things short, I'd like to improve my current input handling. Basically the player can move up/down/left/right with WASD, perform an attack with mouse left click ...
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I'm developing a somewhat simple, small roguelike game as my university project. Early into development I heard about Enity-Component-System and decided to go with that as my game's architecture. ...
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I am designing a physics class library for Unity and would love to be able to hook and inject functionality into Unity's Rigidbody class, but it's my understanding ...
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Interactive in-game tutorials often interrupt game flow and override standard behavior in a way that can be difficult to implement cleanly. For example, imagine we have an action game and we want a ...
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I've been using the new input system to simulate touch in my game, it works perfectly but only with the input manager(which is a singleton for the ease of use), when I add the PlayerMover script it ...
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I would like to code a turn-based RPG, and I decided to use a database to store all skills in the game. Now I have to decide as well which class can see this database, and how classes pass around ...
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I'm trying to implement a platformer character using a finite state machine, but I have troubles understanding what kind of logic goes into a state and what logic goes into a main player class ...
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I am trying to implement an ability system in Unity for a game similar to XCOM (turn based, team consists multiple of units, grid based). Every unit have X action points per turn. I would like to do ...
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Note: I have two Managers: First one creates 2d block upon click. The other one, upon click, grabs a block for dragging. The reason I need them to run in specific order is because newly created block ...
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I've recently been reading the book Game Programming Patterns by Bob Nystrom, and one chapter I've found a bit hard to grip is the chapter about the Component pattern. In the example he uses (which ...
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I want to create a scripted dialogues/sequences between NPCs and/or PC during the game. I have a DSL to configure a PC's dialogue with one NPC, inspired by Inkle and Twine. Now, I need a dialogue ...
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TL; DR: How do I give unit and building types a unique "identity" without turning my codebase into a mess? I've been reading the genius Game Programing Patterns and it's made me very (...
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I have two scenes, The first one called "Boot" contains and ObjectPoller class that instantiates all GameObject in the game and disable them. I made it a singleton with "don't ...
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I'm developing a top-down shooter and I currently have a PhysicsSystem which operates on TransformComponents. Basically, it ...
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I'm developing a 2D roguelike with an Entity Component System (ECS) and I've been struggling with this question a lot the past week. For example, let's say you have various effects that occur when an ...
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I am writing a programming language of my own. (I've done two Turing complete ones in the past, but this time I'm trying to actually be useful.) Now, one thing that should be especially easy with ...
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I'm developing a top-down 2D game in Javascript using an Entity-Component-System architecture and I'm struggling with the question of exactly how to implement temporary buffs / permanent passives. For ...
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I'm developing a top-down game using Javascript and Canvas in an ECS architecture. I'm wondering, which of these is better from a design / elegance point of view? Method 1: Combining the ability ...
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Currently working on a small home project of developing our own game. The game basics are just a straightforward space game, currently without any collision detection/resolution, just movement with ...
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I am wondering how games like dota, or Magic Arena implements their hero/ card special ability system, and more specifically how do they "Hook" their special ability triggers to the game ...
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I know this is a controversial topic being discussed a lot , but I have not found a clear answer yet. So , there is a "Grid" in my game , which I implement it with an Array of GameObjects. ...
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I would like to implement a simple game logic engine that is agnostic to the rendering system, but I don't know how to do that, really... so I would like to have advise and know the state of the art! ...
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We currently have the problem that our main class GameController is being pulled into every backend file in our game. We're wondering what are common solutions to this problem. Here's a bit more about ...
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I'm reading Game Programming Patterns by Robert Nystrom. As a test I've implemented the command pattern, but a little farther in he changes it to return commands, rather than instantly executing them. ...
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I'm making an idle game in the vein of Melvor Idle and I've run into a problem calculating the yield and consumption of resources while the user is away. For those who don't know, many idle games have ...
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I've heard a lot of people say singletons are bad practice and an 'anti-pattern', like here, this answer this article and here. However, a lot of the reasons I've read about seem to be to do with ...
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I've been stuck doing this in a very inefficient way and really want to know if there's some design pattern that solves this because it seems like a pretty common problem to have. I have a system ...
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The floor of my game (tower defense) is composed by a set of cubes. I wish to change these on some of the waves. I have a list of the changes that need to be made on each wave in a floorController ...
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I'm trying to implement a state pattern - having skated by with enums forever - and have hit a bit of a wall when it comes to it's implementation in my game. It's a grid based strategy game with an ...
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