Event systems and patterns are a vast topic, and it's a subject matter we can't cover in depth in this book. Therefore, we have prepared a shortlist of patterns to consider when implementing an event system or mechanism, but keep in mind that there's a lot more out there, and we encourage you as a reader to continue exploring the topic beyond the limited scope of this book:
- Observer: An oldie but goodie pattern in which an object (subject) maintains a list of objects (observers) and notifies them of an internal state change. It's a pattern to consider when you need to establish a one-to-many relationship between a group of entities.
- Event Queue: This pattern permits us to store events generated by publishers in a queue and forward them to their subscribers at a convenient time. This approach decouples the temporal relationship between publishers and subscribers.
- ScriptableObjects: It's possible to create an event...
