I am not interested in game programming (well, not for my job, maybe yes just for fun), but I am going to use Python for programming some numerical algorithms.

I think Andy’s IDEA-ALTER proposal is very interesting, as it covers all the possible “states” and “tasks” to be taken into account when programming a game.

In fact, I think it could be a good idea to adapt that framework to a more general programming situation.

If I want to build a project, with some authored classes (and maybe modules) and a main routine, how would the IDEA-ALTER match/fit each part of the project? How could/should it be adapted? I don’t know if my question is clear enough… How would an IDEA-ALTER framework for a general program look like?

For example, there would be an IDEA-ALTER structure for each module, or would it only fit the main procedure? Would/should class and function definitions be outside the IDEA-ALTER framework?

Thank you in advance for your answer.