Book Image

SFML Game Development By Example

By : Raimondas Pupius
Book Image

SFML Game Development By Example

By: Raimondas Pupius

Overview of this book

Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (SFML) is a simple interface comprising five modules, namely, the audio, graphics, network, system, and window modules, which help to develop cross-platform media applications. By utilizing the SFML library, you are provided with the ability to craft games quickly and easily, without going through an extensive learning curve. This effectively serves as a confidence booster, as well as a way to delve into the game development process itself, before having to worry about more advanced topics such as “rendering pipelines” or “shaders.” With just an investment of moderate C++ knowledge, this book will guide you all the way through the journey of game development. The book starts by building a clone of the classical snake game where you will learn how to open a window and render a basic sprite, write well-structured code to implement the design of the game, and use the AABB bounding box collision concept. The next game is a simple platformer with enemies, obstacles and a few different stages. Here, we will be creating states that will provide custom application flow and explore the most common yet often overlooked design patterns used in game development. Last but not the least, we will create a small RPG game where we will be using common game design patterns, multiple GUI. elements, advanced graphical features, and sounds and music features. We will also be implementing networking features that will allow other players to join and play together. By the end of the book, you will be an expert in using the SFML library to its full potential.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
SFML Game Development By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. The More You Know – Common Game Programming Patterns

As we move past the halfway point of this book, the bells and whistles in our games are going to get more and more advanced. To showcase them properly, the genre of our final project will be a classical 2D Role Playing Game with orthographic projection. With our code-base growing at a rapid rate, poor design quickly becomes tedious to maintain, or even unmanageable. As new features get added, we want expansion of code to be easy and not slow down the overall process. This is the area where game programming patterns shine the brightest.

In this chapter, we will be covering:

  • The design and implementation of the entity component system

  • Inter-system communication using the observer pattern

  • Render ordering

  • Implementation of map layers

Let's not waste any time and jump right into making our code base more robust!