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Oh no! You have to rewrite that huge legacy app! You've already argued that you can fix the legacy code and you've sent the managers the Joel Spolsky "never rewrite" article. Management responds by pointing out that both Basecamp and Visual Studio both had famously successful rewrites.
Do you update your CV or do you tuck in and get the job done?
If you care about software, you have probably heard about design patterns: MVC, decorators, factories, etc. But there's an awesome design pattern that’s perfect for modeling complex behaviors, but it’s not well-known outside of the game industry.
We’ve built a narrative sci-fi MMORPG named Tau Station. Like many devs, we were quickly hit with the problem of developing complex items. At first, it looked like we wanted to create an Item class and inherit from that.