A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines

Re:A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Ga... by p_l on Saturday December 28, 2019 @08:57AM (#21898909)

There's a game that already did that, Sword of the Stars 2.

Widely panned at release due to being forced to release old code after VCS failure, though I'd argue the only problem after patches were left was that movement logic change didn't play out well (it was a brave attempt though).

Had some bad performance issues but I never tracked down whether they were related to SQLite or issues in their engine.

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Re:A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Ga... by TeMPOraL on Saturday December 28, 2019 @10:22AM (#21899313)

Well, of course there is. Here I thought I'm doing something somewhat original...

Fortunately, existence of prior art doesn't invalidate any of the goals I had for this experiment, so I'll just carry on with it.

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Re:A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Ga... by p_l on Saturday December 28, 2019 @05:47PM (#21902345)

Of course it does not invalidate your experiment, but I wanted to suggest maybe looking at save files from the game.

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Re:A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Ga... by billfruit on Saturday December 28, 2019 @10:15AM (#21899274)

Are you referring to the rougelike Sword Of the Stars:Pit or to the base game itself

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Re:A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Ga... by p_l on Saturday December 28, 2019 @02:49PM (#21901252)

No, I'm referring to 4X Sword of the Stars 2 itself. The Pit happened later, on a different engine (SotS2 is heavily windows-specific .NET code with DX10 dependency, iirc)

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