Game Programming

• ECS Concepts – Part 7: Messaging

  by Cory on May 13, 2018

  Messaging is cool, trust me. It’s gonna have some complicated template code though so hang tight.

  If this feels like a digression because I haven’t gotten around to talkin... (Read More)

• ECS Concepts – Part 6: Entity Subscriptions

  by Cory on March 8, 2018

  If you must blink, do it now.

  Pay careful attention to everything you see and hear, no matter how unusual it may seem. And please be warned: If you fidget, if you look awa... (Read More)

• ECS Concepts – Part 5: Entity Filtering

  by Cory on November 10, 2017

  Ok so this might seem like a weird topic to start talking about systems in depth, but filtering entities is one of the first things you’re gonna want to do in a system and ... (Read More)

• ECS Concepts – Part 4: Systems Overview

  by Cory on October 17, 2017

  Damn, it’s been a little while. I was trying to hold off on writing this post until I fleshed out a few systems in my code before starting the systems section in case there... (Read More)

• ECS Concepts - Part 3: Components

  by Cory on September 19, 2017

  Uh, I’m just realizing that there isn’t much to say about Component and it’s implementation so this post will be on the short side. Because of the implementation of the Ent... (Read More)

• ECS Concepts - Part 2: Entities

  by Cory on September 5, 2017

  Let’s get straight to the implementation details and the hugely retarded design decisions that I put into making my own entity class implementation. The nuts and bolts of a... (Read More)

• ECS Concepts - Part 1: Background

  by Cory on August 30, 2017

  Hey kids, guess what? It’s finally time for Cory to update his fucking blog. I got my code to a point that I’m willing to call “Milestone 1”. It has the E, the C, AND the S... (Read More)

• How to Explain Your Game to an Asshole

  by Cory on May 19, 2017

  Sorry if you were expecting an actual update. I'm about 40% done with my ECS implementation and then I'll start a series of posts about it. But for now, I'm going to post t... (Read More)

• Tearing My Hair Out

  by Cory on April 12, 2017

  I haven't updated in a while. Sorry. I thought after I did Serialization, everything would be smooth sailing and I'd finally get to the interesting parts. I was reading up ... (Read More)

• Serialization sucks even more...

  by Cory on February 4, 2017

  Wow, so compared to Serialization (translating data structures and objects to and from strings), GUI programming is exciting as shit. I went for more than a two month gap b... (Read More)

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