Understanding the basics of a game architecture
In order to better understand the fundamentals of a typical game architecture at a high level, we can begin with a historical perspective with the first text-based adventure game Adventure.
The high-level game loop of Adventure
The following figure (Figure 1) describes the high-level game loop of Adventure type text-based games where the game would block all updates for its lifetime until it receives user-based text input on the command line:
Figure 1
Once the text was read from the command line (carriage returns were typically an indication that the player was finished inputting text), the game would ...
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