Godot Master: Lead Architect Knowledge Hub

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🧠 Part 1: Expert Thinking Frameworks

"Who Owns What?" — The Architecture Sanity Check

Before writing any system, answer these three questions for EVERY piece of state:

• Who owns the data? (The StatsComponent owns health, NOT the CombatSystem)
• Who is allowed to change it? (Only the owner via a public method like apply_damage())
• Who needs to know it changed? (Anyone listening to the health_changed signal)

If you can't answer all three for every state variable, your architecture has a coupling problem. This is not OOP encapsulation — this is Godot-specific because the signal system IS the enforcement mechanism, not access modifiers.