Player - Player class keeps the record of an actor action states within a game.Deck - Deck class represents the cards in a game.Game - Game class keeps the record of global states of a game.The resources include the card design library as Library and the card display as CardDisplay. At the highest level, a game is a composition of a Deck of cards, a set of Player and the associated GameResource. Game is a session that follows a definite set of rules, a set of players that interact with the game model. Extracting from the game data model, the following UML diagram highlights the classes that represent the game engine components. It also maintains the game states, by using the game information system that tracks the players and the game progress.

The Game Engine defines a set of rules that players must follow. When activate the rftg_game.ipynb inside VScode, change the Python kernel to use rftg that has been setup from the code README.md instructions. Inside Visual Studio code, install the Microsoft’s “Jupyter” extension. The development experiments on (Part 2) are recorded in the Jupyter Notebook rftg_game.ipynb to quickly run the code samples. Interest reader can find the full development set up instruction, Python source code and Jupyter notebook experiments described in this article from. As usual, a balance between theory and practice, we set up the Python development to illustrate the object-oriented game engine. In part 2, we shall continue to describe the game architecture using Race for the Galaxy (RFTG) for our study.

All legal operations are presented and interacted with the player(s) according to the game rules. The interface allows the player(s) to select optional elements of the game. The game preference and setup are an integral part of running a game. (4) Game Interface - the management system of a game. All legal operations are checked and animated on-screen. The game states and operations are projected on a display. (3) Game Engine - the rules and rendering of a game. When studying any game source code, this architecture will help to classify their functional roles The functional roles are (1) Game Story and Game Asset, (2) Game Model, (3) Game Engine, (4) Game Interface, (5) Game AI, (6) Game Physics (only for physics based game), and (7) Hardware Abstraction. Game Architecture Overview - The components are grouped according to their functional roles in the system. This article focus on the components of (3) Game Engine and (4) Game Interface.įigure. Continue from the previous Game Architecture for Card Game Model (Part 1), we defined a game architecture as a reference to study the “Race for the Galaxy” card game.

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