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From: mkelly@cs.uoregon.edu (Michael A. Kelly)
Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Basic design of an arcade-style game
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Date: 15 Oct 90 07:03:17 GMT
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Hello, peoples.  A friend of mine and I are planning on writing an arcade-
style game for the Mac II series.  We would like some input from you
experienced professional programmers on how to design such a creature.

So far we have been thinking in object-oriented terms; e.g. there would be
a list of entities which would each have methods for moving, attacking,
and drawing themselves, and the main event loop would call these methods
repeatedly.

How would _you_ design it?


Thanks in advance,

Mike.
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