Component-based game object systems in practice [closed]

Question

Let's see history of success. Which popular games (and game engines) were built using component-based game object system? Each answer should contain:

1. Game Title (one per answer)
2. Author / Company
3. Year
4. Development time (optional)
5. Link to postmortem (optional)
6. Links to docs/source code (optional)

Answer 1

Resistance 1-2 (possibly 3) (2006-2008) by Insomniac Games

Terrance Cohen lists these games in his A Dynamic Component Architecture for High Performance Gameplay talk from GDC Canada 2010.

Not sure if this was applied to the recent Ratchet & Clank games.

Answer 2

Dungeon Siege by Gas Powered Games

Scott Bilas released a lot of information about Dungeon Siege which featured component-based systems, amongst other things.

Dungeon Siege was released in 2002.

Answer 3

Unity3D uses a component-based system by default. It is superb for creating game entities from a text file and dependency injection.

function createEnemy() {

   // extract AI type for enemy
   // definition is a custom structure holding parameters to create the enemy
   var aitypename = definition.ai;

   // AIType can be an interface or abstract class
   // you can create a component from a string or from a type
   var ai : AIType = this.gameObject.AddComponent(aitypename);
   ai.setup(definition.ai_settings);

   // set rule for enemy when it is destroyed
   this.gameObject.AddComponent(definition.when_destoryed); 


}

Those components could look like this

class AI_Scout extends AIType
{
  // called per update-frame on the game-object with this script
  public function Update() {
    // run Scout AI here
   }
}


class Spawn_Ammo_On_Destroyed extends When_Destroyed
{
   // automatically called by the engine when the game object this script is attached to is
   // destroyed
   public function OnDestroyed() {
    // spawn ammo
    }
}

Answer 4

1. Thief: The Dark Project
2. Looking Glass
3. 1996 - 1998
4. 2-ish years
5. Postmortem

Answer 5

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3
Developer: Neversoft
Year: 2001
Time: About two years
Post Mortem: Evolve Your Hierarchy (probably the most linked component-based article)

Answer 6

To my knowledge the best project i have seen is Burger Engine. jst download the code and check how well they have implemented.The whole thing is data-driven from xml and they used very well entity based architecture.worth looking at it.

http://code.google.com/p/burger-engine/source/browse/