Timeline for GameState management hierarchical FSM vs stack based FSM
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| Jun 21, 2017 at 19:09 | comment | added | CosmicGiant | TIP: Regarding this answer's Tip 2; a different (possibly better) way of doing it is to use a reference to the class-type, instead of a string name. --- You don't get the risk of messing the string with typos or during changes in refactors, because you kinda get type-safety from the compiler; while still getting the same effect of not having to instantiate states every time, or worry about containers/management (well, you do, but it's just a dictionary; same as the string/name approach). Might even save a few bytes of memory (because [class-]reference instead of string)! | |
| Nov 2, 2016 at 23:48 | comment | added | Tanmay Patil | Great tips. Glad to see concepts from functional programming in mainstream. 1. Function Composition, 2. Memoization, 3. Higher Order Functions, 3. Monads | |
| Mar 20, 2012 at 19:04 | comment | added | David Gouveia | @user8363 No problem! By the way, I learnt most of these tips from an article in Game Programming Gems 5 in case you'd like a reference. | |
| Mar 20, 2012 at 18:29 | comment | added | user8363 | However this answer still leaves me in the dark how other approaches would work and I'm still undereducated in the difference between a hierarchical FSM and a stack based FSM and how to apply them to game states, I will take this as a base for my implementation. You explained it very well and it seems rather intuitive. I'm not going to accept this as answer because it doesn't exactly answer my qustion. I don't have enough reputation to vote it up though, otherwise I would. Thanks a lot this really helps me! | |
| Mar 20, 2012 at 1:53 | comment | added | Patrick Hughes | All of this is very easy to follow if you've ever used an HP RPN calculator =) Or programmed in Forth. Nice coverage. | |
| Mar 20, 2012 at 1:48 | history | edited | David Gouveia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2012 at 1:41 | history | answered | David Gouveia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |