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Game Architecture

Started by tiutiu Mar 19, 2003 at 4:42 AM 4 replies 450+ views

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Mar 19, 2003 at 4:42 AM

I''m currently writing an arkanoid clone and had a few problems with the game architecture, i dont know how to visualize it. If there was only to be the main game screen there wouldnt be any problem, but there is the intro screen, menu and submenu screen, character selection, etc... each one with different display, key process and resource load functions. I thought doing something like an aplication object with pointers to functions and different classes for each type of screen, so that classes set up the application function pointers to its own and application only has to call each function. Is that stuff viable?? Can you give me some advice? Thanks in advance. PD: Im spanish, so sorry for the spelling

n0ob

Mar 19, 2003 at 8:38 AM

The menu doesn''t have to be so large, and the screens so different that you should worry about resource load functions or some of that other stuff. You could design a quick and dirty menu using arrays of a menu screen structure, having current screen index. You could have buttons etc whose visiblility is determined by their menu id. That''s a quick way. Now, since most people will be playing your game, don''t spend too much time making your menu perfect

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Luctus

Mar 19, 2003 at 9:22 AM

http://www.codeproject.com/tips/statepattern3.asp

Good tutorial on the state pattern, worth checking out.

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AnthonyLewis

Mar 19, 2003 at 11:46 AM

I just finished a tutorial called Managing Games States in C++ a few days ago. It uses C++ classes similar to the CodeProject article mentioned above. My method uses a stack of state classes to allow one state to be paused while another is executing.

Anyway, you can read it at http://tonyandpaige.com/tutorials/game1.html. I would appreciate any feedback.

Tony

Punx

Mar 19, 2003 at 10:33 PM

I must say that is an excellent article Mr.Lewis. Game states are one of those things that I had trouble with and it''s nice to see a simple, easy to follow tutorial out there. Good job.

AnthonyLewis

Mar 20, 2003 at 12:20 AM

Thanks for the praise. I''m going to try to add more tutorials as I learn new things - hopefully about once a week. Maybe one of these days I''ll write a book

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