Discover Python and Patterns (8): Game Loop pattern

The time has come to see our first design pattern: the Game Loop Pattern! This pattern can give us many good ideas to refactor our game in a very effective way.

This post is part of the Discover Python and Patterns series

The Game Loop pattern

There is several version of the Game Loop pattern. Here I present a simple case with a single thread. The following 5 functions form this pattern:

• The init() function is called at startup to initialize the game and its data. In the following, I name this data the game state.
• The processInput() function …