Game Programming Patterns (2014)

This is the book that finally helped me grok software design patterns. Gang of four reads like a dictionary while the examples of Game Programming patterns have stayed with me. If I'm rendering a forest of course I don't want to copy the data for trees a 1000 times so of course I need to use the flyweight pattern The decoupling patterns chapter is particularly good and will help you understand how to turn each entity in a game into…

This is from the same fine gentleman that gives us http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/ Thank you so much for your work.

Most lists of design patterns (including but not limited to the GoF and this site) are written with the noblest of intentions, and contain a lot of insights and interesting solutions. Patterns can provide specific solutions to specific problems, and also a common vocabulary for developers to talk about these problems and solutions. Unfortunately, for the past 18 years I have seen repeatedly (in the game industry and outside) that they tend to be used as shopping lists by developers…

I purchased this book. Might have been about 10 years ago, now. It is a nice book and, from memory, is well written. I do think that there are better books with regards to game programming. I would say this book is good is you are a web developer (or something) and want to brush over ideas on how to build games. What you learn from this book can translate to your day job to solving problems. The reality is…