Breakout Game: Three Ways to Design It

What We’ll Do

We’ll compare three working implementations of Breakout—Procedural, Object-Oriented, and Assembly—to understand how design decisions shape responsibilities, coupling, data flow, and the cost of change. The event is free, and we’ll also give away free tickets for the follow-up workshops.

Workshop Series Overview

This session is the Design Reviews kickoff for the Project Breakout Game workshops.

• Breakout: Three Design Reviews - You are here
• Breakout: How to Combine It - Part 01 - Ball dynamics, basic interactions
• Breakout: How to Combine It - Part 02 - Decentralized collision detection
• Breakout: How to Combine It - Part 03 - Scoring, game states, extensibility

Prerequisites: None. This review is open to all and a great entry point to the series.

Workshop Outline

Part 1: What We’re Comparing

Why these three implementations

Duration: ~15 minutes

Orienting the Review

• Goals, criteria, and how to “read” code through design lenses.
• Quick tour: Procedural vs. Object-Oriented vs. Assembly.

Review 1: Procedural

• Data structures, update loops, and control flow.
• Benefits and risks: transparency, branching complexity.

Review 2: Object-Oriented

• Responsibilities and collaboration between objects.
• Benefits and risks: readability, hidden coupling, extension points.

Review 3: Assembly

• Memory layout, performance constraints, and explicit control.
• Benefits and risks: speed vs. maintainability.

Part 4: Comparative Takeaways & Q&A

• Your questions and alternative designs.
• Free ticket giveaway for the follow-up workshops.

Workshop Objectives

Design reviews that sharpen judgement

• See the same problem three ways: build a richer mental model of design trade-offs.
• Identify where complexity hides: responsibilities, data flow, branching hotspots.

Additional Details

• Free Registration: Seats are limited; please register to receive the link.
• Giveaways: Some free tickets for the hands-on workshops will be drawn during the live session.
• Recording Access: Attendees get 14 days of access to the session recording.