2 posts tagged with "ecs"

In my Master’s thesis I investigate how partitioning entities and their components affects parallelization and concurrency in ECS systems.

The research question is motivated primarily by the use of ECS in video games and real-time simulations, where making effective and comprehensive use of the available system resources and processor cores is particularly relevant. At the same time, certain runtime invariants and, in many cases, deterministic state transitions must be ensured.

My software project helios is a game engine written in C++, originally conceived as a simple framework for a Geometry Wars clone. The project quickly shifted away from its initially intended focus on gameplay and graphics implementation toward a deeper engagement with engine architectures. The result breaks with classical OOP paradigms: In my report, I document this transition from deep inheritance hierarchies to a data-oriented (DOD) system.