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User interaction and Component based architecture
I'm working at my first game and I've decided to build a simple component based engine.
I found really useful to work in that way but I still miss some fundamentals probably.
Let say that I have a ...
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Component based game engine and dependencies - singletons [closed]
I am thinking about how to create component based game engine.
I understand that all things should be very similar as in Data Oriented Design (each object is a collection of various structures as ...
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Game state management: the buck doesn't stop “here” soon enough
I realize there are already many Q&As on this site about GameState/GameScreen management, state machines, state stacks, etc. This question is meant as a follow-up:
Suppose hypothetically I ...
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Server architecture software side
I'm making a game some like Terraria. I have a couple of prototypes, but most of them use a "entity-component-system"(ESC) and some custom terrain implementation. Now I've reached the part where I ...
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Tips for Component Based Entity System message handling
I'm trying to implement a component-based entity system but am a bit confused on how I should handle the messaging. There are two problems I'd like to resolve so I can test the system. Below is the ...
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In an Entity-Component System, how to represent the world/level/gameboard?
I am trying to learn more about Entity-Component Systems, and something that kinda stuck out at me was the question of how to represent the world in such a system? More specifically, I'm trying to do ...
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Component / Entity-based design => no inheritance at all?
[I understand that this this could be seen as a rather theoretical question, but I think it has real-application impact].
"Academic" base
With a component-based design one wants to get rid of the ...
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Retrieving components from game objects (entities)
Using C# and XNA 4, I've made the decision to go for an entity-component based design for my game after reading such posts as this and this, but I'm now struggling to find how to retrieve components ...
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SceneManagers as systems in entity system or as a core class used by a system?
It seems entity systems are really popular here. Links posted by other users convinced me of the power of such system and I decided to try it. (Well, that and my original code getting messy)
In my ...
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Component based design, but components rely on each other
I've begun stabbing at a "Component Based" game system.
Basically, each entity holds a list of components to update (and render)
I inherit the "Component" class and break each game system into it.
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Many sources of movement in an entity system
I'm fairly new to the idea of entity systems, having read a bunch of stuff (most usefully, this great blog and this answer).
Though I'm having a little trouble understanding how something as simple ...
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Should components have sub-components in a component-based system like Artemis?
I am designing a game using Artemis, although this is more of philosophical question about component-based design in general. Let's say I have non-primitive data which applies to a given component (a ...
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How can I use multiple meshes per entity without breaking one component of a single type per entity?
We are just switching from a hierarchy based game engine to a component based game engine. My problem is that when I load a model which has has a hierarchy of meshes and the way I understand is that a ...
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Dynamic Components
I am attempting to design a component-based architecture that allows Components to be dynamically enabled and disabled, much like the system employed by Unity3D. For example, all Components are ...
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Adding sub-entities to existing entities. Should it be done in the Entity and Component classes?
I'm in a situation where a player can be given the control of small parts of an entity (i.e. Left missile battery). Therefore I started implementing sub entities as follow.
Entities are Objects with ...
