Game Classes

Using too many classes can be a danger, yes. However, you can use classes effectively to separate large chunks of code into smaller, more manageable pieces, and give each class a clear responsibility of it's own.

Having that said, at some point you'll probably need some objects you can reuse, like sprites and images, or game objects like enemies, projectiles, items, and so on. Good candidates for classes and usually also for a nice inheritance structure. You can then add one or more classes to manage these objects. The rest of the code only needs to worry about knowing that particular class, as it serves as an interface to the complex management going on underneath it.
In other words, there's a lot of uses for classes. Do a search for 'design patterns' and you'll see some creative uses. Oh, you may also want to know about 'anti-patterns', examples of how not to do things. :)

Don't worry too much about instantiation: it depends on how complex your class is. A class containing only an integer takes only slightly more time to construct than an integer itself. Only worry about things like this when you notice parts of your program are taking a lot of time (this is called profiling, e.g. pinpointing the bottlenecks in a program).

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Original post by programmermattc I've been told by others that instantiation is quite a big part sometimes and the only time I use it is with my 'GameApp' being and derivation of 'Framework'.

Do you mean inheritance?

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Original post by Sneftel Quote: Original post by programmermattc I've been told by others that instantiation is quite a big part sometimes and the only time I use it is with my 'GameApp' being and derivation of 'Framework'. Do you mean inheritance?

Sorry, yes you're right, I did mean inheritance.

Beginning OOP programmers are often tempted to overuse inheritance. You seem to have overused it yourself, in terms of GameApp inheriting from Framework. You should prefer composition (object of class A as a member variable in class B) to inheritance (class A as the base of class B) where possible. Required reading.