Creating Different Game Modes

Learn how to create different game modes.

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Games typically run in modes. Modes specify what the game should do on the current tick, displaying the main menu or the game-over screen, for example. In computer science, this is often formalized as a state machine. It’s a good idea to start by defining our game’s basic mode structure, which acts as an outline for the rest of the program.

Flappy Dragon requires three modes:

  1. Menu: The player is waiting at the main menu.

  2. Playing: The gameplay is in progress.

  3. End: The game is over.

Transitions between these modes are relatively straightforward:

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