C++ Game Dev 7: Components
If you’ve been following the tutorials up to this point, you’ll have a sprite that you can move around the screen using the keyboard. While this is a good start; we will, in the not too distant future, want to add additional functionality to our player object. At the very least we will want our player to have health, physics, a bounding box for collisions, and a way to animate its sprites. This is where the component system comes in, the focus of todays and next weeks tutorial.