Summary
Over the course of this chapter, we learned about particles and how they can be used in order to improve the polish of our game project. We learned how we can implement a particle system inside of the Mach5 engine, and then learned about the Flyweight pattern and how it can be used effectively in order to reduce the memory usage on your projects. We saw how to do this by making use of the Factory pattern too, while making it a lot easier for us to create new particle system types as well. Keeping this in mind, it will be a lot easier in the future to break apart pieces of your programs that stay consistent and only create additional variables when you need to!
Moving forward, in the next chapter we will dive into graphics and the concepts needed to understand how our code will affect moving and animating game objects.
