Designing the game

Though a game is not a typical piece of software, its design doesn't differ much from regular application design. We will start with the main entities and decompose them further into classes and their relationships.

In the previous section, we discussed all the necessary game components and their interaction. We did a requirement analysis and gathering in terms of the project development life cycle. Now, we'll start designing the game.

Designing character units

The following class diagram represents a reader:

As we go through the other character units, we will come up with a base class for each character unit. Each specific unit will inherit from that base class and will add its specific properties...