[k__]

Does anyone know about such a book/list with game-play patterns?

Most of the time I work with game engines, which already use the patterns mentioned here. I struggle with stuff like moving entities in specific directions, collision detection, physics, gravity, etc.

[rcfox]

Game Mechanic Explorer[0] covers some of these, with examples and source code.

[0] http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/

[mkilling]

This was recently posted on HN: http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/