Extensible Programming

For games and most applications in C++, you will always your programming is extensible. C++ is extensive.

I am not sure what you want. Are you looking for specific solutions or design ideas?

Kuphryn

Easy tip: avoid magic numbers and magic types. Make constants for the numbers and typedefs for the type.

Other than that... Code clean. If it''s a tar ball, you''re going to be afraid to go back and extend it.

Use the STL, be a good C++ citizen. It''s hard to give some advice without a specific problem in mind.

Cédric

Well, the best situation I can think of as an example would be a very dynamic MUD base. I know that most coders of MUD bases make huge efforts in making their bases as extendable as possible.

By a dynamic MUD, I mean things like allowing rooms to move around, allowing people to be put into other peoples backpacks (or even eaten), allowing a room to be in a suitcase, and all the other things that a ''typical'' base would be hard pressed to do. I''ll assume that one of the major goals here is to keep ''special'' coding for certain objects/rooms/characters to a minimum.

So, when they are designing something such as a MUD base, what kinds of techniques and patterns do they use to keep everything in a working, but extendable state?