game design

Does anyone knows a good place to learn about game design. I mean how to use classes in games, how to seperate classes in header files, and so on.

google code search. Search for games and just look and see how they implement their classes and divide up their files.

It's too complicated. I don't know for what game to search, it would be much better if i had a tutorial on game design.

It's really up to the programmer... there is no real tutorial, you just design it the way you want to design it. One programmer might implement a game one way another might do it completely different. The general rules for designing are simple; Don't write spaghetti code, comment well, and leave room for updates and advancements.

As for separating source files... here is my simple rule for large projects: If the classes or functions have nothing to do with each other, then they should be in separate source files. Follow that and you should be fine.

Thanks. I gues you are right. Everyone has their style.

I have always had and idea about organizing classes, just that i though there is a certain rule to do it. Seems there isn't.

So here are my orientations ( if anyone is interested ) :

Code:

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- put everything in a classes
- never create global variables and functions
- define a class in a header file
- declare a class in a cpp file
- use main() only to call the corresponding function from the engine class
- declare video, sound and input classes
- no matter how small the class is, it should be alone in the file

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So that's it pretty much, Can you guys post your styles so that we can compare them...

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Just so you know, many games are deviating from C++. Today you see games written in Python, Lisp, OCaml, and specialized in-house game scripting languages. The development cycle is simply faster, and it's easier for fans to write plugins, mods and maps. But if you happen to write a fast game library in C++...