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David Baron is a game developer with over 15 years of experience in the industry. He has worked for some well-known AAA, mobile, and indie game studios in Montreal, Canada. His skill set includes programming, design, and 3D art. As a programmer, he has worked on various games for various platforms, including virtual reality, mobile, and consoles.
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Benefits and drawbacks of the Event Bus pattern

The benefits of the Event Bus pattern are as follows:

  • Decoupling: The main benefit of using an event system is that it decouples your objects. Objects can communicate through events instead of directly referencing each other.
  • Simplicity: The Event Bus offers simplicity by abstracting the mechanism of publishing or subscribing to an event from its clients.

The drawbacks of the Event Bus pattern are as follows:

  • Performance: Under the hood of any event system, there's a low-level mechanism that manages messaging between objects. And so there might be a slight performance cost when using an event system, but depending on your target platform, it could be minuscule.
  • Global: In this chapter, we implement the Event Bus with static methods and properties to make it easier to access from anywhere in our code. There is always a risk when using globally accessible variables and states as they can make debugging and unit...
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David Baron is a game developer with over 15 years of experience in the industry. He has worked for some well-known AAA, mobile, and indie game studios in Montreal, Canada. His skill set includes programming, design, and 3D art. As a programmer, he has worked on various games for various platforms, including virtual reality, mobile, and consoles.
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