code-separation – Tarik Billa

Implementation of achievement systems in modern, complex games

May 8, 2023 by Tarik

Achievement systems are really just a form of logging. For a system like this, publish/subscribe is a good approach. In this case, players publish information about themselves, and interested software components (that handle individual achievements) can subscribe. This allows you to watch public values with specialised logging code, without affecting any core game logic. Take … Read more

Is it a good practice to place C++ definitions in header files?

October 6, 2022 by Tarik

Your coworker is wrong, the common way is and always has been to put code in .cpp files (or whatever extension you like) and declarations in headers. There is occasionally some merit to putting code in the header, this can allow more clever inlining by the compiler. But at the same time, it can destroy … Read more