As an interesting coincidence, the renowned German publisher Heise today
published an article in their online Developers section about entity component
systems:
Component-Based Entity Systems in Spielen (text is in German)
The text is a very nice description of entity component systems, and quite
similar to my recent news post ...
In my previous news post "More about
Component Systems" I presented the central ideas and concepts about
the two component systems that we are about to introduce to the Cafu
Engine. Since then, a lot of work has been achieved, and it is time for
an update:
The biggest challenge ...
As explained in my previous
news post, I am currently migrating the old DeathMatch game code to
the new
Component System architecture. Just this afternoon I finished dealing
with the "hand grenade" entities in the new system, and I found that
they're noteworthy in many regards:
When I first posted about Component Systems exactly one year ago, things were still at the very beginning. Since then, the efforts to introduce Component Systems to the GUI window hierarchies of 2D and 3D GUIs, and to the game entity hierarchies of game maps made very good progress. In ...
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In a recent News
announcement I presented a dissector for Wireshark that one can use to study
and analyze the Cafu Engine network protocol. (I currently use it to aid
the development of the Cafu Component Systems, about which I'll post more
information soon.)
However, what I haven't ...
I wish you all a good and happy new year 2013 and all the best wishes!
As things have been very exciting for those following our development branches
in Git, but outwardly a bit calm for those who don't, let me take the
opportunity for a brief review of ...
Motivated by user feedback and recent developments, we've updated several pages
of our website and documentation.
In this post, I'll briefly summarize the most important changes:
In "Migrating
Cafu to distributed version control – Part 1", I outlined the
fundamental considerations for the migration. This post continues the
subject with the more specific and technical details.
Goals and Requirements
Specifically for Cafu, what are the goals and requirements when converting to
Git?
As a first step, our ...
For the Cafu Engine project, we have almost from the very beginning used Subversion as our version control system, and Trac as the bug and issue tracker. Both systems have served us very well in the past, and in fact until today there is nothing fundamentally wrong with either of ...
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My recent work for improving the game and entity code turned out to have a large effect on the networking layer in the Cafu Engine as well: Moving the serialization and deserialization of entity state from the management code into the entities themselves is the first key step to achieve ...
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