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I'm not so sure about that. Naively the "Dog is-an Animal" inheritance hierarchy based ontology is a great match for games, but basically every beginning OO game programmer quickly finds out that it doesn't scale at all and composition is the way to go almost every time. Indeed, the currently fashionable game engine architecture patterns (data-oriented design, entity-component systems) explicitly eschew object-oriented thinking.



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