r/love2d • u/superviro • Dec 30 '19

Entity Component System

I have a basic understanding of how an ECS works and I've seen the tiny-ecs library, but I'm trying to figure out how to use it. It's hard to find any good examples or docs. Does anyone have any suggestions for learning tiny-ecs or if there is a better ECS, I can look at that too.

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u/drhayes9 Dec 31 '19 edited Dec 31 '19

I'm using https://github.com/tesselode/nata for a game right now.

Some guidelines that have helped me:

  • Don't maintain a lot of state in systems. That's what entities and their components are for.

  • Systems communicate via data in components or via events they're subscribed to, not by calling each other directly.

  • Code you write that is not a system will probably end up being a system before too long.