Introduction

Data structures are used in the video games industry to organize code into more cleaner and more manageable. An average video game will have about 20,000 lines of code at least. If we do not use an effective storage system and structure to manage that code, it will become very difficult to debug. Also, we may end up writing the same code multiple times.

Data structures are also very useful for searching elements if we have a large data set. Let us consider that we are making a MMO. From the thousands of players online playing the game, we need to isolate a player who has the most points on a certain day. If we have not organized the user data into some meaningful data structure, this might take a long time. On the other hand, using a suitable data structure can help us achieve this within seconds.