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I am trying to implement ECS for my simple 2D game. I would like to ask a question about how components should communicate between themselves and with entity. I tried to implement few components, ...
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I have two user cases: How would entity_A send a take-damage message to entity_B? How ...
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I'm not sure how exactly objects do things to other objects in a component based design. Say I have an Obj class. I do: ...
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Apologies if this question has been answered before, but after relentless searching I couldn't find anything. As many, I've recently jumped on the ECS-bandwagon, and I am currently killing some time ...
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I'm quite new to game development (but not to programming) and I'm trying to figure out what would be the best way to handle inter-world communication. What I mean is this: I've been reading about ...
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I'm looking at implementing a messaging system in my entity component system. I've deduced that I can use an event / queue for passing messages, but right now, I just use a generic object and cast out ...
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I'm having hard time converting OOP game objects to Ashley ECS framework. I have a character, gun & a bullet class. The character uses the gun as weapon, the gun class has a fire method that ...
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What are common ways to implement Events in an entity component system ? Most games typically have following events : Damage Events Collision Events Area of interest Events Entity Died/Respawn events ...
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I'm using a model where entities are collections of components and components are just data. All the logic goes into systems which operate on components. Making basic systems(for Rendering and ...
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I'm currently working on an HTML5 top-down simple RPG game, and as a learning experience I'm building my own little engine from scratch. After reading around a little I decided to go with the Entity ...
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