Articles with tag "pipeline"

When we write text, we often don't think that for the engine 'Protector' and 'protector' are completely different things, and 'Fire Extinguisher 30%' vs 'extinguisher / common' is a parser's nightmare. The fix: enums that fix a vocabulary and structures that order complex data

Learn to connect game objects through links instead of names, so a rename never breaks your game design. We'll also see how multilevel inheritance lets you build specialized templates

Enemies, characters and game cards all redeclare the same fields by hand. A base object defines that structure once - and each instance only fills in the values that make it different

Give each field a real type so its value behaves predictably and is validated - string, text, number, integer, and checkbox (boolean). A typed value carries its behavior from the editor, through the balance table, to the engine