Hey all,

I've recently become the moderator for the software engineering section of a game forum. Anyways to get people to think about architecture in games I've posted the first in my THINKING series. I've posted up a simple model for a game, and I'm asking people to analyze it, find it's flaws, and see if it would work for ANY game (or what games it wouldn't work for).

This is a high level, abstract question, and I hope you all will check it out and submit your input. There are many advanced developers here, and your input to the learning series would be invaluable.

Click on the link, then go to the software engineering section.

Please take a look (http://www.neosgameprogforum.tk/)

Later,

Jeff Plummer

It is nice to see a copy of the older Invision Power Board in use. I don't like the new version.

Does the guy who runs the site know that he can turn the DOT TK pop-up off?

I didn't really look at what you have there, I'll come back to it later, though. ;)

Wow, I had to reject freaking amount of cookies!

Hey Jeff,

Seems like a good idea. There is a lot that traditional software engineering can offer to games, and for some reason, doesn't seem to get used very often.

Do you want replies here or over there?

Reply over there...

My goal is to ultimately get a lot of good input on various aspects of game architecture. Hopefully people will attempt to answer the "Thinking Question", and hopefully people will question the validity of the answer.

I love software architecture, it's like a puzzle. The architecture of one aspect, is going to affect the design of another aspect of a software system.

Programmers often times think oppositely. Thinking of what they are doing now, and not often thinking of how the decision they are making now, will affect the rest of they system, or the expandability at a later time.

Hopefully the learning series will cover aspects that people have done, or about to do soon. And they will see that many designs are possible, and they all have advantages and disadvantages.

Strange, I haven't been able to get your site to come up in the past 2 days...