Key features

• •Untangle your game development workflow, make cleaner code, and create structurally solid games
• •Implement key programming patterns that will enable you to make efficient AI and remove duplication
• •Optimize your game using memory management techniques
• •Learn what design patterns are and why you would want to use them
• •Reduce the maintenance burden with well-tested, cleaner code
• •Employ the singleton pattern effectively to reduce your compiler workload
• •Use the factory pattern to help you create different objects with the same creation logic and reduce coding time
• •Improve game performance with Object Pools
• •Allow game play to interact with physics or graphics in an abstract way
• •Refractor your code to remove common code smells
• •Introduction to Design Patterns
• •One Instance to Rule Them All - Singletons
• •Creating Flexibility with the Component Object Model
• •Artificial Intelligence Using the State Pattern
• •Decoupling Code via the Factory Method Pattern
• •Creating Objects with the Prototype Pattern
• •Improving Performance with Object Pools
• •Controlling the UI via the Command Pattern
• •Decoupling Gameplay via the Observer Pattern
• •Sharing Objects with the Flyweight Pattern
• •Understanding Graphics and Animation
• •Best Practices