SW Component Design

Software Component Design

BomberUnits SW Architecture

• Character Control
• In-game UI
• Menu UI
• Game Management
• Match Management
• Player Management
• Level Management Component
• Net Management
• Bomb Mechanics Component

About SW Component Design

The first step in development is getting an idea of your game design, aka. what features you want to have in there from a top-level or user experience view.
From there on we need to decide where the feature would fit in our overall architecture, taking into account required information/data and understandability. This is part of the SW Architecture docu.
Finally, here, we need to go into details why a certain feature is implemented as it is. Details on every SW unit can then be found in the Doxygen class documentation.

Each Software Component Design page should thus explain and/or link:

• Game Design implemented: See: Game Design
• Implementation constraints: Things like required data from other components, speed, network synchronization, etc...
• Component details: Explanations on how the solution works. The focus should be on cross-SW-unit topics, as details on a single unit are better kept with the source code, generated into Doxygen pages.

Also related How-Tos could be linked here.