Thomas Biskup - There be dragons: Entity Component Systems for Roguelikes

Talk from the 2018 Roguelike Celebration - roguelike.club

[@123TeeMee]

I'm new to game development and I think I'm getting bogged down watching all sorts of videos like this about potential frameworks, systems, patterns and stuff, when I should probably make something in the first place to understand what the problems are that such things would solve

[@andrewfleenor7459]

Yep. Figure out how to draw stuff in a loop, make a bouncing box or something, and go from there. Don't be afraid to just have a list of objects with update() and draw() methods for a while. (Source: currently getting back into gamedev. (: )

[@alfonsoesteves5090]

Really good idea at 12:30, using a common template for all units of the same type, and locally you would only indicate the modified attributes.

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

All the men of war games do this for basically everything but maps. Even the models and are made up of parts that get welded by the engine.

[@behnamrasooli8801]

This is not the ECS architecture, it's the component-oriented architecture similar to Unity MonoBehaviour. The pure ECS is what the Unity DOTS is.

[@fourriversfarm]

Great talk thanks, Thomas!

[@badradish2116]

for things like orc-slaying, you should have a component that lets you tag entities w things like "orc".

[@gabrielpi314]

Tappable/Clickable link to the video mentioned at 0:54 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2GWiYuwmLmbfbc

[@badradish2116]

in general, you wouldnt want a component to replace its owner entity. so of course opening a closed door caused a bug in that case. the door should have a state of being opened or closed.

[@nycoshouse]

this looks over complicated, but ADOM is a really deep game

[@Sqwaush]

Brians Talk: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2GWiYuwmLmbfbc