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Thanks for the replies, everybody.

Since it's a throw-away program he can just keep it closed source and not put it on GitHub and move on to his next game.

I'd like to put it on github because one.) I figure being able to use github would be a useful skill and 2.) It would make it easier to get feedback on my code.

Also, my next game will probably need a timer also, so I might as well change the code now. The problem I'm having is that I don't know what I could change. I could get rid of some  member functions, change names, etc. I looked up other implementations for a Timer class, but they were mostly just slight variations of the one I have now. Any suggestions? (I'm not trying to ask you to change the code for me, I just want ideas for what I could change).

Thanks, that was a great answer. It cleared it up perfectly.

Thanks, I think I'm gonna go with github for now. This is a little off topic, but how do you actually build or compile a project that's on github. Do you just open up he project in an IDE and build it? For example, i saw that torque3d was on there, so if I wanted to turn that repository/source into a usable product/executable, is that how I'd do it (I know that most of these projects have places to download binaries and such, but I'm just curious)?

Sorry if this is a stupid question.

Thanks, all the answers are great! I don't think I'll need the more complicated state machines for a while, but it's nice to at least have an idea of how people do it. I can see from the responses that there're a lot of ways to implement game states. Are there reasons to use one way over another in specific situations, or is it more just a matter of preference?

Should I post this in a different place?