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Multimedia Tools and Applications. View 1 excerpt, cites methods. Computer games as motivation for design patterns. View 1 excerpt, references background. In a game, just like in a movie, there should be only one director.

A director is a class that conducts everything that happens in a game. It controls the rendering of an object. It controls position updates. The engine should prevent more than one instance of a director to be created and it does so through the Singleton Design Pattern.

This design pattern ensures that one and only one object is instantiated for a given class. Learn how to implement this pattern here. In a game, you should always decouple the interaction between the input controller and the game's logic.

The game's logic should receive the same kind of input regardless of the input controller button, gesture, joystick. Although each input controller behaves differently to the user, they must provide the same data to the game's logic. Furthermore, adding or removing an input controller should not crash a game.

This decoupling behavior and flexibility are possible thanks to a design pattern known as Strategy Design Pattern. This design pattern provides flexibility to your game by allowing it to change behavior dynamically without the need of modifying the game's logic. In a game, all of your classes should be loosely coupled. This means that your classes should be able to interact with each other, but have little knowledge of each other.

Making your classes loosely coupled makes your game modular and flexible to add features without adding unintended bugs. This pattern is normally implemented when an object wants to send messages to its subscriber other objects. The object does not need to know anything about how the subscribers work, just that they can communicate. A game normally consists of many views.

There is the main view where the characters are rendered. There is a sub-view where player's points are shown. There is a sub-view which shows the time left in a game. If you are playing the game on a mobile device, then each button is a view.

Maintainability should be a major concern during game development. Each view should not have different function names or different access points. Instead, you want to provide a unified access point to every view, i. This unified access point is possible with a Composite Design Pattern. This pattern places each view in a tree-like structure, thus providing a unified access point to every view. Instead of having a different function to access each view, the same function can access any view.

No doubt about it. It is the most widely used and loved design pattern among programmers. And I wish it wouldn't have been that way. I, like many programmers, started learning this pattern without realizing that this pattern is made up of three fundamental Design Patterns. Not realizing this fact, caused a lot of confusion.



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