Hi, every one. I am a newbie of game programming.

I have read many articles about game development, and many of the authors suggest using component-based programming to development a (big?) game, compare to Object Oriented Programming.

May I ask is it still true for a mini-size action game, which is similar to little fighter 2(lf2.net)?

I guess OOP may have better performance(in terms of speed).

Thanks!

I would hardly call LF2 a mini-game.
In any case, making things modular is hardly a new way of thinking, and (thankfully) it's not incompatible with OOP or even with plain C programming.

Before going the component-based design route, you should get familiar with modularization. I suggest you first design your code in paper: separate functions in modules, based in related functionality. It's a good exercise to get you familiar with modularization.

Thanks a lot for your help.

I do think OOP has better performance because I need to use C++ to write the game, which is a OOP language, and I have to implement the component as object, and it seems that more pointer access is needed for component-based system. Of coz, I am not sure if I am correct.

Thanks a lot.

Again, thanks to all of you.
The data-oriented design seems interesting, but I still need time to understand it/.\

To implement the component-based design, I use the following idea:

Core Engine :

....... //code to parse the script
//main game loop
foreach entity {
    entity.update()
}

entity:

class entity {
private:
    vector<component*> m_com;
public:
    void addComponent(component*);
    void update() {
        foreach com in m_com {
            com.execute();
        }
    }
};

and the execute function in the component do all the things, by different component.

Can anyone give me some adive??

Thanks a lot.

I wouldn't use a "foreach" loop because then entities and components can't remove themselves from the list. A standard "for" loop solves this problem. Also, if you haven't done so yet, you should probably think about how components and entites talk to eachother.