ES Approaches

Overview

Different kinds of ES: there are many different ways of architecting an ES, and even more ways of implementing it.

For similar-but-different stuff, see Related Technologies
For source code projects you can download, see ES Implementations
For tutorials on specific frameworks, see ES Tutorials

Core Architectures

Fundamental approaches to building an ES. NB: there's no accepted "right" way of doing this (yet); if something is included here, it's not necessarily recommended!

• RDBMS Inspired (the core idea behind the ES Alpha/Beta/…etc approaches)
• a.k.a. "ES Alpha": RDBMS With Code in Systems (the t-machine approach)
• a.k.a. "ES Beta": RDBMS Beta (upgraded version of RDMBS-with-code-in-Systems)
• Aggregate OOP with Message-passing
• How NOT to do an entity system; entities the oo way with logic included

See also

• ES Tutorials