Re:A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Ga...
by TeMPOraL on Saturday December 28, 2019 @02:01PM
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Small world indeed. I work a bit in Clojure from time to time, so I have a passing familiarity with the coding style.
FWIW, for the same game I described above, I also ended up cloning half of Stuart Sierra's famous Component library to use it as my half-baked Dependency Injection framework. This was motivated by the fact that - due to various life reasons - I do a good chunk of my development from a sidearm machine via SSH to my desktop, so I need an architecture where I can develop and test the game in headless mode (no graphics, mock inputs) as much as possible. I write a lot of unit tests now.
FWIW, for the same game I described above, I also ended up cloning half of Stuart Sierra's famous Component library to use it as my half-baked Dependency Injection framework. This was motivated by the fact that - due to various life reasons - I do a good chunk of my development from a sidearm machine via SSH to my desktop, so I need an architecture where I can develop and test the game in headless mode (no graphics, mock inputs) as much as possible. I write a lot of unit tests now.