Re : Structuring of application state objects

However if I set a player object in the global state observe, and then set it to a new instance of a player object once the view is rendered, the view is not updated. 

 

The problem is hard to diagnose without your view code. If you use state.attr('player') in view it will handle all changes of player attribute (if they are set correctory using state.attr('player', otherPlayerInstance) )