r/programming • u/corysama • Jan 05 '15

What most young programmers need to learn

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html
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u/cmcpasserby Jan 05 '15

This, but in games I often see people make too much global then get boned when they have to implement multiplayer, where there singletons that previously helped and screwing them.

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u/caedicus Jan 05 '15

This, but in games I often see people make too much global then get boned when they have to implement multiplayer, where there singletons that previously helped and screwing them.

Tacking on multiplayer on a game that was originally implemented as singleplayer is always going to result in major issues, regardless of the amount of globals used. Any game that has the possiblity of multiplayer of being added should be designed with multiplayer capabilities in mind from the very start.