Should actors in a game be responsible for drawing themselves?
- by alex
I am very new to game development, but not to programming.
I am (again) playing around with a Pong type game using JavaScript's canvas element.
I have created a Paddle object which has the following properties...
width
height
x
y
colour
I also have a Pong object which has properties such as...
width
height
backgroundColour
draw().
The draw() method currently is resetting the canvas and that is where a question came up.
Should the Paddle object have a draw() method responsible for its drawing, or should the draw() of the Pong object be responsible for drawing its actors (I assume that is the correct term, please correct me if I'm incorrect).
I figured that it would be advantagous for the Paddle to draw itself, as I instantiate two objects, Player and Enemy. If it were not in the Pong's draw(), I'd need to write similar code twice.
What is the best practice here?
Thanks.
