Design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design.
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Why are MVC & TDD not employed more in game architecture?
I will preface this by saying I haven't looked a huge amount of game source, nor built much in the way of games.
But coming from trying to employ 'enterprise' coding practices in web apps, looking at ...
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Do retail games use “inversion of control” and “dependency injection”?
Many of the more diligent software developers I know are moving to inversion of control and dependency injection to handle references to objects. Coming from a Flash games perspective I don't know all ...
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what are the essential things to be looked upon in game design
I've made a couple of games now.
Starting from basic hobbyist projects like snake , I advanced into platform based games, board games, turn based games. While doing the latter of these projects I had ...
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Anyone have a source for pictures/screenshots/demos of Mud OLC systems?
I really want to get access to some images of MUD (multi user domain/multi user dungeon) OLC (mud OnLine Creation), to use the structure of npcs/mobs/characters/areas/rooms that muds use on my own ...
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Are there cases where globals/singletons are useful in game development?
I know that having global variables or singleton classes creates cases that can be difficult to test/manage and I have been busted in using those patterns in code but often times you gotta ship.
So ...
