Component-based designs rely on separating the multiple logical attributes of business objects and game objects into small components dedicated only to specific tasks. Whereas game objects are usually modeled to reproduce the attributes and behavior of "real world" objects by aggregating them ...
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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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Is Minecraft component-based? [closed]
Is Minecraft based on the principle of components? If not, what organizational structure did they use?
I ask because I am beginning to feel like creating an engine arround components is quite frankly ...
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Increasing flexibility of a data passing system in a component based entity system
I'm creating a Component orientated system for a small game I'm developing. The basic structure is as follows: Every object in the game is composed of a "GameEntity"; a container holding a vector of ...
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Design to handle logic within a state
I am designing a new game and I am trying out the entity-component design where entities are comprised of groups of components holding a bunch of attributes. I also have a stack of 'game states' and ...
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A.I. dependencies based on components
I'm working on a turn based game in Unity. I need to perform field/grid analysis(2D grid) when i'm iterating trough each unit "entity". The A.I. should be able to plan ahead and therefor needs to ...
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Cocos2d/Box2d Component based entity system
Recently I've read somewhere that it is not a good idea to inherit from CCSprite class when making your game objects. In my CBES each Game Object has :
-PhysicsComponent(responsible for updating ...
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Techniques for incorporating physics engines like Box2D into a Component-based Entity System
Currently i'm working with my own physics engine, however given the fact that the emscripten ports have gotten incredibly good, i wanted to try and incorporate Box2D into my entity system for the next ...
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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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C++ formatted serialization [closed]
I've decided it's time to implement serialization in my simple engine but this has caused me many headaches for the past couple of days/weeks. My engine uses an entity/component based approach similar ...
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Structuring server-side networking with entity-component systems
I've been working on an online game, and recently have been working on converting the base of the game to use the Artemis Entity System Framework. I'm having a bit of difficulty conceptualizing ...
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Input handling in component based design
I know this question has been asked several times, but I'm still not sure how to implement input handling in a component based engine.
The component based design I used was based on T=Machine's blog ...
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When/where to update components
Instead of my usual inheritance heavy game engines I'm toying with a more component based approach. However I have a hard time justifying where to let the components do their thing.
Say I have a ...
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How would the entity system handle dependent components?
Currently, I am still learning about entity-component-system, and I have the following question concerning the components.
How would the systems handle dependent components?
For example, In a 2D ...
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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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Game state and input handling in component-based entity systems
My question is:
How can I handle game states in my entity system, without resorting to keeping a stack of game state objects around?
So the design of my entity system means that when an entity needs ...
