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How have you defined base objects in your game? (self.gamedev)

submitted 6 days ago by sentient_loom to c/[email protected]

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I'm making an RPG in C++ and the items (loot/gear) will have immutable base versions, but then the player can get instantiations of them which can change with use and modification. These mutable instantiations will be saved in the DB. But I'm wondering if the base versions should be defined in JSON, or a separate DB (with the same schema), or maybe the same DB (seems dangerous), or if I should just hardcode them in C++ in the ItemFactory.

How have you approached this problem in your games? How do game engines do it? I'm using SDL2 so I'm doing most of these systems from scratch.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

For now, all items in my game use Godot's Node3D as the base, and I am moving towards having all their respected scenes contain component nodes and scripts for their functionality, to keep it clean.

There's a lot more inheritance at play, but its been months since I touched the project, I should look at it and get more details. In reality, composition via nodes and types is going to be easier to maintain.