Introduction My Xmas gift to the Svelto Community this year was the complete rewrite of the Survival Svelto.ECS MiniExample. This example is used as a reference by all newcomers because it’s the simplest to digest for people who are not in the ECS mentality and still think in terms ofRead More →
With the approaching third major release, Svelto.ECS internals have been overhauled to support Burst and native memory (among other features that I will discuss in different articles). The idea to support native memory in a c# framework is counter intuitive, but Burst is such an incredible piece of technology thatRead More →
Note: this is an article dedicated to the windows platform. What am I going to show may or may not apply to other platforms. Those pesky native crashes If you are a long term unity developer, it must have happened to you: Unity suddenly closes itself and shows the dreadedRead More →
I had two interesting problems to solve during the development of Svelto.ECS, which in short are: Set an implemented property of a struct, but only when the struct implements a specific interface, from a generic method and without casting the struct to the interface Assign an object to a fieldRead More →
Being busy on multiple fronts, I recently went AWOL from this blog, but Svelto is keeping up well with the new technologies (read Unity DOTS) and we are actively developing it for our new game Gamecraft. I am also spending my little spare time to develop Svelto 3.0, which willRead More →
Welcome back! It’s some time that Svelto ECS 2.8 is actually ready, as it has been used at Freejam for quite a while now (yep, we are developing Robocraft Experiments with it) and as the list of tasks for SECS 2.9 is growing, it was time to write this articleRead More →
Note: this article is now outdated. The new version is found at: https://www.sebaslab.com/the-new-svelto-ecs-survival-mini-example/ Introduction Lately I have been discussing Svelto.ECS extensively with several, more or less experienced, programmers. I gathered a lot of feedback and took a lot of notes that I will be using as starting point for myRead More →
Note: this article is not maintained. The mini example Doofuses has a third and final iteration for a long time now and it is what all my new articles refer to when talking about this example. Iteration 3 enhances the code using Burst and Jobs. After finishing writing my previousRead More →
Premise In this article, I am going to explain why I believe the Entity Component System design is a great paradigm to develop simpler to maintain (and therefore less expensive) codebases and also explore the idea to formalise best practices through the application of the SOLID principles, which, at glance,Read More →
Svelto ECS so far… Svelto.ECS wasn’t born just from the needs of a large team, but also as result of years of reasoning behind software engineering applied to game development(*). Compared to Unity.ECS the main goals and reasons for Svelto.ECS to exist are different enough to justify its on going development (plus Svelto isRead More →