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Prototype Design Pattern


Implementing Prototype Design Pattern like a boss and then laughing it off.
Bonus: coool way of spawning arrays of objects from a prototypical instance (check spawnMonsterArray).

The prototype pattern is a creational software design pattern, that is used when the type of object(s) to create is determined by a prototypical instance, which is cloned to produce new objects. This pattern is used to:

  • avoid subclasses of an object creator, like the factory pattern does
  • avoid the inherent cost of creating a new object in the standard way (like using new) when it can be prohibitively expensive for a given application

Design

  • define an abstract Prototype class with a clone() method that returns a copy of itself
  • create subclasses of Prototype . These will...

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