[tokumei]

I really love ECS. I’ve shipped games with my own spaghetti mess of classes and poorly thought out inheritance (at least it feels that way) but ECS and composition just is much nicer for incrementally adding functionality without thinking about the big picture too much. I love that I can think about just one small feature I want to add instead of the overall grand design.

This might be bad design (no idea) but I’m working on an item system for a game right now. I have Item and ItemHolder components. If it’s a player, they’ll have an InputController component, which lets them use the Item in the ItemHolder, otherwise there is an AIController component that let’s an NPC use the item.

I have a system for handling every piece of functionality that can be defined in its smallest form, which makes it incredibly easy to add or remove functionality to any entity.

Also, performance is great. I have the mindset to not prematurely worry about performance until profiling now.