We have some different types of tiles, which we will call ITileDefinition.On the other hand, if you introduce types, you can read the code in a more abstract, or conceptual manner, like: I just hope something similar could happen in future for the art department as well.Ĭlick to expand.The important aspect of designing in terms of types, which I think to be the key concept in OOP, is that one should not need to look into the source code itself to understand what each types do, or how to use them.įor instance, in the original code, one needs to read the if-else statement chains, line by line to understand what it's supposed to do. And the big shifts towards the open source movement in the last decades didn't really put professional developers out of their jobs, but instead made their life a lot easier, by allowing them to build something great on top of someone else's work. But similar thing has already happened for the programmers before. It might sounds like an impossible dream. For, how many hours have to be wasted by game studios everywhere, to recreate very similar looking medieval towns, or some urban cities in varying qualities over and over? If indie developers can have access to the same kind of quality art resources that were used in such projects like The Witcher 3, or Far Cry, or big studios can build upon previous works created by other big studios, we'll see significantly better quality games from indies to AAA studios. I know there are some websites where you can download a few free models and textures, but they are not as big or popular as Github for programmers.īut I think it'd be awesome, if there was sort of a ' de facto' directory for open source art resources, and it becomes a norm for the game industry as a whole, that instead of recreating proprietary art resources every time, they just use some of the AAA quality resources from such an open respository, and also contributing their works to it. On a side note, I really wish there was some sort an equivalent for Github for artists.

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