ECS for 2D games: what it is, how it works, when to skip it
ECS for 2D games in plain words: entities, components and systems, archetypes versus sparse sets, the hecs and bevy_ecs style, and when a Vec of structs wins.
by Tendai Mukwena
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Tendai Mukwena
Tendai writes about architecture: game loops, entity component systems, collision, pathfinding and procedural generation, usually with a profiler open. He works on simulation tools by day and builds roguelikes at night in Harare.
Fixed timestep game loop in Rust: accumulator, clamp, interpolation
A fixed timestep game loop in Rust: why variable delta time breaks physics, the accumulator pattern, a spiral of death clamp, and interpolation for smooth drawing.
by Tendai Mukwena
Game engine architecture for small 2D engines, layer by layer
Game engine architecture for small 2D engines: the six layers, how data flows through one frame, immediate versus retained APIs, and where game state should live.
by Tendai Mukwena
Comfy 0.2 release notes: context objects versus globals in Rust
Comfy 0.2 drops the EngineContext parameter for global functions and turns bloom off by default. A look at the change and the context versus globals debate.
by Tendai Mukwena