hecs | heaps | |
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12 | 21 | |
894 | 3,131 | |
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7.2 | 9.7 | |
about 1 month ago | 2 days ago | |
Rust | Haxe | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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hecs
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Does it still make sense to roll your own ECS?
For Rust, I really like Bevy's, but it gets too much in the way. I'd probably use macroquad instead with something like hecs (I tried macroquad with Bevy ECS and didn't go well).
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Why ECS pattern is popular in Rust?
The question arises from seeing a plethora of projects using ECS: hecs , Bevy , specs, legion
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Learning How To Rewind Time - Save & Load
My current design has struct Core that is basically "everything you need to save in a savefile", it has a hecs ECS (which needs a bit of boilerplate the hecs docs show you how to write to serialize it), and a bunch of simpler gamestate stuff like the discovered map positions, the current player etc. Everything is tree-like and serializes into a text file. Entity handles from hecs serve as "pseudo-pointers" that can represent cycle-like structures without running into endless cycles.
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After working on our Godot + Rust game fulltime for one year it is now up on Steam
Out of the other Rust engines we've tried I think Macroquad was the most interesting option, and even though I've only made a few small projects in it worked extremely well and was what I'd expect from a game framework. While working in Bevy I felt like it was "writing fun Rust", but it wasn't really making a game. Macroquad on the other hand got immediately out of the way, and using it together with hecs was a painless experience where the whole time I felt like I was working on "the game" rather than "building systems that are invisible to the player".
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BITGUN Demo is now live on Steam - a game made in Rust and Godot by a two person fulltime indie dev team over the past 9 months
The last crate worth mentioning is probably hecs for ECS, which we don't really use as heavily as some ECS fans would assume, but it made working around some problems between GDScript and Rust easier by storing things in ECS, passing around handles and querying ECS instead. Initially we did this with a global object and lots of state (which we still use for some things), but as the number of "things" grew it became easier to put it into ECS.
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A 2D Pixel Physics Simulator with Cellular Automata written in Rust
I use the awesome Vulkano for rendering and computation, and Rapier for simple physics. Contour is used for the initial shapes, but rapier forms the physics colliders from it. Hecs is used as well. And you might recognize Egui as gui :). I gotta say, I'm starting to be pretty happy with the rust ecosystem overall.
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What is the plain Vec architecture in the hecs documentation?
In the hecs documentation there is a section, Why Not ECS?. In it, the author states, "If your game will have few types of entities, consider a simpler architecture such as storing each type of entity in a separate plain Vec."
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Showcasing my game: The Process. Built with Rust and Godot!
Usually, what I do is creating large, robust components in Rust. In my game, most of the logic lives inside the Factory node, which inside holds a full ECS (currently using https://github.com/Ralith/hecs) as well as other associated resources. This node takes care of holding the state and simulating all the machines in the factory and their interactions.
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Tiles as entities for common states and effects? (ECS related)
Generally, spatially-indexable data gets special treatment in games. (See Why not ECS for example, from the hecs ECS library.)
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I'm trying to follow the RLTK tutorial and feel like it is too much at a time, please help me solve some questions
That impl basically says that Leftwalker is a System (or implements a System interface, to use a different parlance). Why exactly do Systems need lifetime is something better asked of the authors of the ECS library the tutorial uses. (personally I use hecs https://github.com/Ralith/hecs instead because I find it easier to use, no lifetime in sight :p)
heaps
- Not only Unity...
- List of Unity alternatives
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Unity's Trap
Maybe the engine used for Dead Cells, https://heaps.io ?
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Ask HN: Best stack to make a 2D game in 2023
I've personally had a very good experience with Haxe and Haxeflixel (https://haxeflixel.com/) although Heaps (https://heaps.io/) seems to be more popular nowadays.
Haxe is very nice as a language, can easily cross-compile to a lot of targets, Haxeflixel is heavily inspired by some Actionscript framework and has a lot of goodies. Maybe Heaps is more mature, up to date and allows for more advanced features.
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What is the worst engine you've ever used and why?
Not really the worst, but you can say my least favorite, and that would be heaps.io
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why are gamedevs so against sharing code?
Yeah I think it's ideal for 2D development. Look into heaps.io . . you might like it! These days it seems the best source of community for haxe is in their official discord server.
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Picking a language
Many frameworks will let you export for the web, even if you don't code your game in JS. Unity, Godot, Bevy(?), heaps.io ... the list goes on and on.
- Ask HN: Why Adobe still can't figure out Flash on WASM?
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I tried the Flash AS3 at school and it was nice
It takes a little while to get comfortable with heaps.io, largely because tutorials in the Haxe world are pretty limited. Here's a good place to start:
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Everybody always says to 'build your own projects' or 'solve your own problems', what are some things you've done or personally solved for yourself that can inspire others to get their own ideas from?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most people use Unity or Godot for jams these days. But as long as your framework exports for the web, you should be fine. Personally, I use haxe and heaps.io, but it's a bit of an outlier and probably requires learning a new language on top of learning a framework.
What are some alternatives?
shipyard - Entity Component System focused on usability and flexibility.
flixel - Free, cross-platform 2D game engine powered by Haxe and OpenFL
gdnative - Rust bindings for Godot 3
Kha - Ultra-portable, high performance, open source multimedia framework.
ecs - LeoECS is a fast Entity Component System (ECS) Framework powered by C# with optional integration to Unity
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
ecs - Elastic Common Schema
openfl - The Open Flash Library for creative expression on the web, desktop, mobile and consoles.
dungeon-bevy - Rust programming -> random generated Dungeon with Bevy engine
armory - 3D Engine with Blender Integration
sandspiel - Creative cellular automata browser game
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming