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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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ASIN : B00P5URD96
Publisher : Genever Benning (2 November 2014)
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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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.

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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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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