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Software engineering is the design and development of software as it applies to the game development field. Questions using this tag should be about theoretical concepts and practices as relates to the task of creating or designing software. This tag should not be used simply because a question involves programming or contains code.
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Is it okay to update the graphical handlers in the same function where you render them?
I have a class called 'GraphicalHandler' that all my graphical handlers inherit from the main game loop.
The class manages a static vector of pointers to all instances of itself. I can then call the m …
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How do you use configuration files to describe the contents of an entity in an ECS-system?
One of the advantages that's often brought up when talking about ECS-systems is that they allow a higher degree of flexibility in regards to Data vs Code. Without the limitation of hard-coded types, y …
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How do different compositions/types of entities interact in an ECS-system?
I have a working ECS-system set up, largely inspired by this brilliant article (not at all required reading to be able to answer my question) on https://indiegamedev.net/ showcasing an ECS-system with …
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What should be an entity/component, and what shouldn't?
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 yo …
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Should you avoid memory allocation and deallocation while the game is running?
I recently read this answer on this site, which says the following:
making sure no allocation/deallocation is being done while the game is running is a golden rule of thumb.
I interpret this as mean …
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