📝Entity Component System (ECS)

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§ Gamedev

Entity Component System (ECS) is an architectural pattern (most commonly seen in games) that consists of:

• Entities as simple containers for components. In many implementations, entity is just an ID.

• Components that carry data. They are usually “just data” and don’t have any methods/behavior of their own.

• Systems that operate on entities and component. Systems are usually simple functions.

Pros

• ECS architecture allows great flexibility in defining entity types

• ECS may provide better performance

• ECS makes it easy to store/load game state

See also

• (ECS) Cross-system communication via event entities