Prt-1- Basics of the Game

Coding styles....well everything has got to start somewhere, so to start with we'll outline the coding styles that will be used for the project.  I'm sure a lot of you code this way anyway.

What next?  Oh yeah, lets just mention coding style...for this project we'll break the code up into small simple understandable sections/functions/classes.... none of this 2000 line piece of function code that does it all.  Also we'll be commenting the code like crazy..well not to crazy...not going to comment things like, this is an integer int etc...but you get the idea.

All functions/ sections will start on a new like...for example any 'if''s will put there '{' on a new line...it makes it easy to read I think... lets show you an example below:

if {       code goes here }   void myfunction(parameters) {       code fo_r the function here }

GameEngine Directory/File layout......

Well we don't want all the .cpp and .h files in our one big directory do we....a 100 or so files...so a nicer way to create a sort of hierachy for our code....well just to start off with..we can move and change things if it doesn't work out later on.

main.cpp/.h
	code
		game.cpp/.h
		gamepad
		splash	-splash.h/splash.cpp
		misc
		.etc.....

so our entry point for our game-engine will be main.cpp.....I think this allows us to design and build and test the various parts of our game engine...and bring it together.

A single header! ... so all our vital files are in a single header which we simple include in all our other files

#gameheaders.h/.cpp

Now before we start any coding...lets just jot down what we'll need in this skeleton of a game engine: