Question about using "Game States"

Nicholas Orlowski · 2013-01-08T17:17:52

Ok so lets say I have this: enum GameState { load, pause, idle, movePlayer, etc... } how is a good way to handle being in different states? The only way I know would be to use conditional branches in the update loop. ie: privave void update() { if (gameState == GameState.something) updateGameStateSomething(); else if (gameState == GameState.somethingElse) updateGameStateSomethingElse(); //etc... } A better way? Thanks Nick

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Started by BambooCatfish January 06, 2013 03:10 AM

10 comments, last by BambooCatfish 11 years, 3 months ago

SiCrane

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January 07, 2013 08:41 PM

I'm not a big fan of game state manager classes. I usually use run and return successor with my game states where things like the update() method return a smart pointer to the state the system should be in (which can be a pointer to self). Example code can be seen in this thread.

BambooCatfish

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January 08, 2013 05:17 PM

Thanks guys you all gave me a lot of options and a bunch to think about. I have to read through it all and decide what is going to work best for me, I'll be back when I have more questions.

-Nick