As an on-the-side project, I'm working on a command-line based game. Of course, always wanting to push myself into learning and using new concepts, I've been trying to abstract the game--separating actual elements of gameplay from the display and state storage.

I am stumped. I have no idea where to go or how to separate game elements from the rest of the code (using OOP, of course.) I try to lay out what I want to happen and work from there, but I always come up with a clumsy and haphazard solution. Having the game have multiple environments with different objects, having the objects interact with the user, and still remain separate from the "engine" is something I'm having difficulty implementing. If having a working game is all that I was after, I could do it using my poor techniques without a problem. I'm just sick of churning out code that is fully operational but poor in style :-/

Please help point me in the right direction. How should abstraction work with something like this?

Thanks,
-billyak

In reply to Difficulty Abstracting by billyak

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