As most developers probably know, every game you develop make all subsequent ones easier to make.
Until now I've been using the venerable Ad-Hoc Craptacular Framework method (AHCF from now on), namely- starting new games by ripping off relatively-general-use code from older ones.
The AHCF method works, and works quite well. Every new game your ever changing "framework" gets more general & useful and before you know it it doesn't take that much effort to transform it into something that's easily packable and usable in a new game simply by copying a single directory/jar/dll/whatever.
As you've probably guessed by now, the game I'm currently developing has its code separated to an engine and a game component, and when it gets a bit further along it might even be useful for other people to build their own projects on top of its engine.
Stay tuned for further updates,
-Ido.
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Same I did with SERF, good luck!
ReplyDeleteYes, it seems to be the fashionable thing to do these days ;)
ReplyDeleteThis seems to be the natural eventual order of things ;D
ReplyDeleteYeah, unfortunately I underestimated the difficulty of keeping the engine and the game separate...
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