crancran

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Apr 1	answered	Game architecture / design question - building an efficient engine while avoiding global instances (C++ game)
Feb 28	answered	Server architecture software side
Feb 28	answered	Game Editor plugin architecture
Feb 23	awarded	Tumbleweed
Feb 16	asked	Terrain Multi-texturing Approaches
Jan 21	answered	How should IDs be assigned in an entity component system?
Jan 17	answered	Multiple pipelined game loops
Jan 14	comment	Where to generate data in an Entity-Component System? @Mark Since Terrain is dynamic for your in this case, you could easily generate the terrain first and then by using the API I showed above, you query to get the Y height and simply adjust your entity's position position's starting transform when you load the level data. This seems more logical in flow of processing a level load to me.
Jan 12	answered	Where can I find an open source component-based game?
Jan 12	comment	How to resolve duplicate data in Entity Systems? @Miguel Duplicating data isn't necessarily bad if there a logical reason to do so. Entity Systems, depending on how you organize your game loop, usually play really nice with parallism ideas when things are adequately decoupled that you can minimize or avoid the need to use any synchronization concepts between each parallel thread of execution. This is where duplicating data can really help and you simply define specific sync points where you replicate the data between components/systems where needed.
Jan 12	answered	Abstracting the ability to attack using an ECS
Jan 12	answered	Entity systems with mixed responsibilities (eg render + handle input)
Jan 12	answered	How to resolve duplicate data in Entity Systems?
Jan 11	awarded	Critic
Jan 11	awarded	Supporter
Jan 11	answered	Handle Multiple Scene
Jan 11	answered	Should Client->Server/Server->Client packets be separate?
Jan 4	answered	Game loop, how to check for conditions once, do something, then not do it again
Jan 2	answered	Should each Entity have its own update and render methods?
Dec 20	comment	Hobby project : learning game design or game development? In case my definition of design/development aren't aligned with the OP and are more aligned with what Grzegorz has outlined, then consider this... Focus on making a game first and less focused on crucial design issues. I've often gotten sidetracked on trying to design some overly engineered solution that could have easily been implemented with a basic language construct to start and later refactor as needed. It's a hard lesson to learn but pays off when you adhere to it.