Does anyone know of a resource for Design Patterns about games, and/or real time engines -- I''m familiar with Design Patterns by the Gang of Four, and several other pattern books, but is there anyone who would recommend or knows a book on game design patterns specifically? Just curious, I wouldn''t mind reading something like that. L- " ''No one has control -- control is just a fantasy. And being human is difficult.'' "

Nothings wrong with them -- but I was wondering if there was a perspective for game designers that is directed more at games. I''ll take a look at Game Developement in Java thanks.

I started writing a clone of Collapse -- probably heard of it, found at Microsoft Game Zone. And as I wrote I started designing things, and have wound up with 30 class/interface/abstracts classes files (or so) and I''m not even done yet -- so I was just wonderring. And I''ve started taking it apart to create less coupling, and draw the line more around the MVC pattern... It just felt maybe overkill.

Maybe not -- I''m not sure.

" ''No one has control -- control is just a fantasy. And being human is difficult.'' "