Design patterns are a thing that are useful only when you've essentially rediscovered them for yourself in natural solutions. I developed games as a kid for ma

Design patterns are a thing that are useful only when you've essentially rediscovered them for yourself in natural solutions. I developed games as a kid for many years, and I developed solutions to some problems that I identified later as patterns while reading the GoF book. However, if I had read the GoF book in the first place and tried to forcefully implement patterns just based on reading about them in a book, I'd have done a miserable job.