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Here you can find a series of blog posts discussing why OOP is not a good fit for games: https://ericlippert.com/2015/04/27/wizards-and-warriors-part-one/ https

• taneq 7y ago
  I've read these before, they're great (and I'm going to read them again now for fun. :) That said, "let’s write some classes without thinking about it!" pretty much sums up the criticism of OOP. You can't just throw your problem domain naively at some language structures and then blame the language when it doesn't work. I bet I could pick any programming paradigm and find a way to do it wronger than this. (If I were doing an RPG of the sort in the articles, just off the top of my head, I'd probably end up with fairly abstract 'Creature', 'Item', and 'Action'/'Spell' classes, plus a big data table defining the various types of each of these and the ways they could interact. Your game designers shouldn't be worrying about compiling C++ in order to add a new type of dagger, after all!)
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