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The biggest challenge facing many game programmers is completing their game. Most game projects fizzle out, overwhelmed by the complexity of their own code. Game Programming Patterns tackles that exact problem. Based on years of experience in shipped AAA titles, this book collects proven patterns to untangle and optimize your game, organized as independent recipes so you can pick just the patterns you need.

You will learn how to write a robust game loop, how to organize your entities using components, and take advantage of the CPUs cache to improve your performance. You'll dive deep into how scripting engines encode behavior, how quadtrees and other spatial partitions optimize your engine, and how other classic design patterns can be used in games.

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Publisher: Genever Benning (2 November 2014)
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Language: English
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StevenL

Insightful and hilarious.

Reviewed in Australia on 17 March 2020

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A range of fantastic ideas for organising your game code. The examples, although written in C++, are simple and readable no matter what language you primarily program in. The author writes with a wonderful sense of humour and humility.

The patterns presented presume a general object-oriented style in your project. However, I have found that many of the patterns are more 'concepts' that can be modified to work in a range of ways. For example, I use a slightly different implementation of many patterns in order to program sections of my games in a more procedural style.

An absolute joy to read.

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I am 14 years old...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 December 2017

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I am 14 years old and I have been doing game development for over a year. I have probably read about up to 50 books on game developmet/programming but this is definitely the best. I understand this book perfectly and looking forward to implementing these patterns/theory into my games. I strongly recomend reading this book as you will come back to it repeatedly and you will learn A LOT. I really wish I read this book earlier. Anybody, young or old, asiring to beome a successful game developer should read this book.

Thank you @Robert Nystrom for creating this wonderful book.

P.S. Although, to gain a good understnding of this book you should be at an intermediete level in programming(in any language)as this book teaches you programmng methods/theory.

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Pedro Oliveira

Positive First Read of Game Programming Patterns

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 July 2017

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Read it in three days - that's how easy is to read. Having said that, it's worth reading twice, thrice and so on, because you will want to come back to fully understand each pattern individually, and then, back again, to understand how they can work together, and then again to relate to other patterns outside of the scope of this book.

It will also help you to understand Game Engines (e.g. Unity), how they work underneath the surface and editor. How to optimize them and use the best of both worlds. Finally, it will refer to some nice concepts (data-oriented programming) and misconceptions (misuse of singletons).

Really enjoyed reading it and will do so again as soon as possible.

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Kyle Tiffany

An insightful and interesting book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 January 2019

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Fantastic book and really helps to organise your coding.
I've found this boom very easy to read, the author uses humour to help keep this book from being dull and I find this book gives you the key concepts needed without bombarding you with useless/ non relevant information.

The script used in the book is C++ but can be adapted for other languages easily as the author has tried to accommodate for other languages by giving you the concepts.

A must read if you are wanting to write your own games/ programs

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Daniel Pendle

A useful intro to programming patterns for budding game devs!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2019

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Very nice book, goes into just enough detail to give you the concepts but leaves you to think about improvements, extensions or potential uses outside the ones listed. The patterns are classic programming patterns but given a slight twist of game dev. The author does a good job of explaining the patterns and how/where/why they might be used as well as some potential pitfalls. If you want extensive detail on game engines or how to make your first game this isn't the book, but it doesn't claim to be! The patterns within would be a great help to any budding C/C++/Java game developer (as well as many other mainly OOP based languages I'm sure). Don't expect to be able to write the next AAA title after reading this but you can be sure that your understanding of how games (and their code more specifically) are generally organised. Some of the patterns I felt could have been elaborated on a bit more but overall this book is a great read for anyone looking to get into game development.

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Simon Booth

Good as far as it goes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 January 2015

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Game programming patterns is a pretty good introduction to some common techniques used in game development. If you are new to the industry it is well worth a look. Anybody with a game under their belt already will likely be familiar with the majority of problems and solutions, and will likely only find a few new ideas to use in their work.

One useful quality of "patterns" books is to help establish a shared vocabulary, and giving names to some common techniques may have value in itself. I just wish the book had covered more ground and more patterns, even if that meant covering some less generic turf.

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Yinyin

Clear, pragmatic, and fun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2018

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Other comments have it that the book is more aimed at hobbyists. True, yet it's also difficult to write such books well. This book delivers the material in clear and engaging manner, presents the problem and just enough information to illustrate each pattern. It's not teaching C++ or a college tome that you believe is useful but never make it halfway through any chapter, but a pragmatic exploration through game programming and patterns.

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Chris Donnelly

Essential

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2017

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Based on the author's website, this book focuses on patterns (think 'algorithm' but a little higher, architecturally speaking) for game programming.

Covers component design, observer patterns, service locator, and many more. This book can be used to apply to many large projects. It's informal but educational.

My one gripe is that the margins for notes are ENORMOUS - half the page (at best) is for reading (assuming no images), but this is a style choice mostly, my personal preference.

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He found it useful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 November 2019

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Ian Lunney

Worthwhile and very readable.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 May 2017

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Worthwhile and very readable. I don't code in c++ but could understand the code examples, as they usually just describe classes and universal concepts like data structures. I look forward to more work by the author.

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Good starting book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 August 2019

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Great for young programmers!

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David Jones

Definitely worth a read for any software developer.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 June 2015

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It's just a really good, solid book on some modern approaches to software architecture and definitely worth a read for any software developer.

I'm having to explore game programming for the first time and right from the first chapter this book has improved my approach. It's written in such a way that both the concepts and their relevant applications can be grasped really easily. It's even quite funny from time to time.

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David Paris

THE Design Pattern Book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2018

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Great book. Straight forward to understand and the examples really help. Relevant to anyone interested in learning about design patterns and program performance (not just for games). Explains the ins and outs of each pattern and alternatives. Highly recommend!

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RoadRunner

Ottimo per chi ha già confidenza del game development

Reviewed in Italy on 11 March 2018

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ATTENZIONE: se siete alle prime armi e cercate un libro che vi introduca allo sviluppo di videogiochi questo libro NON è per voi

Se state cercando un buon libro che vi introduca a come affrontare al meglio i problemi che vi si pongono davanti durante lo sviluppo di giochi questo è il libro perfetto!
Credo che ormai questo libro debba essere letto da chiunque si voglia migliorare e voglia portare il proprio stile di programmazione e di risoluzione di problemi nel campo del game development ad un livello superiore

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Come ci si accorge facilmente, sviluppare un gioco è spesso molto diverso rispetto a sviluppare un qualsiasi altro software, con problemi e difficoltà molto diverse... in un normale corso di studi in informatica si affronta l'approccio per affrontare, durante la progettazione e lo sviluppo, problemi comuni e ricorrenti nel modo migliore (design patterns) , sfortunatamente però questi problemi non si ritroveranno quasi mai durante lo sviluppo di un videogioco data la sua natura, l'autore quindi (da buon ingegnere del software che ci tiene all'eleganza e alla manutenibilità) affronta come riadattare alcuni dei classici design pattern, che la letteratura ci offre, al mondo del game development e ne introduce anche di nuovi specificatamente pensati per questo settore. Tutto questo grazie alla sua lunga esperienza proprio in questo campo!

Una lettura che consiglio fortemente a tutte quelle persone che hanno già confidenza con la programmazione e con lo sviluppo di giochi e che vogliono ampliare le loro vedute apprendendo quali sono gli approcci migliori per risolvere problemi che si incontrano numerose volte durante il meraviglioso processo creativo che porta alla realizzazione di un Videogioco :)

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Joanne

Really useful book. Has helped me to figure out new ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 December 2017

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Really useful book. Has helped me to figure out new ways of defining my data and making use of design patterns as I build my game engine.

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Cristhian

Amazing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 May 2015

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One of the best books on the subject that I have read.

The author's writing is clear and easy to follow, making complex concepts understandable even for not so experienced programmers, like me.
The awareness that the author has with the upsides and downsides of each design choice is remarkable, as well as his attention to details.

This is a must have book.

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