Alternatives to Component Based Architecture?

Posted by Ben Lakey on Game Development See other posts from Game Development or by Ben Lakey
Published on 2012-11-13T06:53:08Z Indexed on 2012/11/13 11:23 UTC
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Usually when I develop a game I will use an architecture like what you see below. What other architectures are popular for simple game development? I'm concerned about having a narrow view of what exists out there for architectures beyond this. Is this an example of component-based architecture? Or is this something else? What would that look like? What alternatives exist?

public abstract class ComponentBase {

    protected final Collection<ComponentBase> subComponents = new LinkedList<ComponentBase>();

    private boolean enableInput;
    private boolean isVisible;

    protected ComponentBase(boolean enableInput, boolean isVisible) {
        this.enableInput = enableInput;
        this.isVisible = isVisible;
    }

   public void render(Graphics2D graphics) {
        for(ComponentBase gameComponent : this.subComponents) {
            if(gameComponent.isVisible()) {
                gameComponent.render(graphics);
            }
        }
    }

    public void input(InputData input) {
        for(ComponentBase gameComponent : this.subComponents) {
            if(gameComponent.inputIsEnabled()) {
                gameComponent.input(input);
            }
        }
    }

    ... getters/setters ...

    public void update(long elapsedTimeMillis) {
        for(ComponentBase gameComponent : this.subComponents) {
            gameComponent.update(elapsedTimeMillis);
        }
    }

}

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