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GARGAR

Game Architecture

GAR is a course about software design and architecture in game development. We build twelve classic games in C# and MonoGame, one per session. The first is a naive Pong written in a single class, and the last is a Vampire Survivors-style game with thousands of enemies. Each game brings a design problem that the one before didn’t have, and the patterns that solve it. Code that every game needs moves into GARCore, a class library that grows with the course.

Start with PongOverviewCourse games

The Games

Section titled “The Games”
  1. 01PongThe game loop
  2. 02Flappy BirdStructuring the code
  3. 03SnakeAssets as data
  4. 04SokobanUndo and replay
  5. 05Pac-ManChanging behaviour
  6. 06Super Mario BrosThe game world
  7. 07The Legend of ZeldaEvents
  8. 08Angry BirdsUsing a physics library
  9. 09Plants vs. ZombiesComponents
  10. 10PokemonScenes and UI
  11. 11Geometry WarsComponents and systems
  12. 12Vampire SurvivorsPerformance