ES Articles

Introductions to Entity Systems

Historical articles (abstract, high-level)

• 2007: Mick West (cowboyprogramming.com)
• 2007: Adam Martin - Entity Systems are the future of MMOG development (t-machine.org)
• 2003: Scott Bilas - Dungeon Siege (scottbilas.com)

What is an ES? / How to build a simple ES?

• Flash: Richard Lord (richardlord.net / Ash)
• Data Oriented Design - ebook + sample code (Richard Fabian)
• Cocos2D: Creating a simple game with an Entity System
• JRuby: Implementing a simple ES in Ruby / JRuby, and integrating with libGDX (on java side) for graphics
• C#: Making a 2d arcade game from scratch in C#

See also

• ES Tutorials
• Game Design for ES

Post-mortems for specific games

• Dungeon Siege (2002: Windows, OS X): [http://gamedevs.org/uploads/data-driven-game-object-system.pdf]
• Prototype (2009: 360, PS3, Windows): [http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1911/Theory-and-Practice-of-the]
• [http://paulgestwicki.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/morgans-raid-postmortem.html] Java: Morgan's Raid