General structure of a game

Before starting to build randomly and without any specific planning, we need to have some information: what kind of game you want to build (RPG, FPS, or action-adventure), what elements will be used, and so on. The aim of this chapter is to understand the general game structure, which can be used in any kind of game. Through this part, we will study:

The game class
The frame rate
The player class
Event management

The game class

In the previous chapter, we have seen the minimal code required for a game, which contains:

Window creation
Creation of graphic display
Handle user inputs
Deal with the user inputs
Display game objects on the screen

Instead of having one function do all the work, we will make use of object-oriented practices and define various states in different functions. Moreover, we will encapsulate the methods in a new class named Game, and we will minimize the main function. This Game class will be the starting point for all our future games:

class Game
{
...

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SFML Blueprints

By : Barbier

SFML Blueprints

By: Barbier

Overview of this book

General structure of a game

The game class

SFML Blueprints

By : Barbier

SFML Blueprints

By: Barbier

Overview of this book

General structure of a game

The game class

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