Lecture 10: Game Design Patterns

Slide Deck

For this lecture we are mostly just looking at some select patterns from this textbook:

Game Programming Patterns

We’ll also look at the Component-Entity-System pattern, which is part of the above textbook but is also a very commonly used and discussed architecture for games.

Here’s some resources:

• Evolve Your Hierarchy
• http://t-machine.org/index.php/2007/09/03/entity-systems-are-the-future-of-mmog-development-part-1/
• http://www.randygaul.net/2013/05/20/component-based-engine-design/