ECS VS libtcod

Compare ECS vs libtcod and see what are their differences.

ECS

A templated, single-file header only Entity Component implementation. (by CGirdlestone)

libtcod

A collection of tools and algorithms for developing traditional roguelikes. Such as field-of-view, pathfinding, and a tile-based terminal emulator. (by libtcod)
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ECS libtcod
1 23
2 912
- 1.5%
0.0 7.8
about 3 years ago 3 months ago
C++ C
- BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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ECS

Posts with mentions or reviews of ECS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-19.
  • Sharing Saturday #351
    4 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 19 Feb 2021
    As an aside, I'm finding that the ECS implementation I did is working really well in terms of ease of implementing new things. I haven't yet tried it with a dungeon's worth of stuff knocking around though.

libtcod

Posts with mentions or reviews of libtcod. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ECS and libtcod you can also consider the following projects:

gruid - Cross-platform grid-based UI and game framework.

python-tcod - A high-performance Python port of libtcod. Includes the libtcodpy module for backwards compatibility with older projects.

reflector - Reflector: Laser Defense, a tactical base-builder game

SDL - Simple Directmedia Layer

bracket-lib - The Roguelike Toolkit (RLTK), implemented for Rust.

BrogueCE - Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game

notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

C++ Format - A modern formatting library

glsp - The GameLisp scripting language

libtcod-vcpkg-template - A template for C++17 libtcod projects. This template uses Vcpkg to fetch dependencies.

minifb - MiniFB is a small cross platform library to create a frame buffer that you can draw pixels in

Axes-Armour-Ale - A fantasy, ASCII dungeon crawler for Windows, Linux & OSX