Games Using An Entity System

NB: this is for *games*, not *frameworks* - frameworks are listed + linked all together on the ES approaches page

Commercial / closed-source

Using: Artemis Framework

(info here: Artemis Entity System Framework)

• Magnetic by Nature (2013) - a Kickstarter project using artemis-entity-system-framework

Using: Ash Framework

(info here: Ash)

• iOS, Android, Blackberry: Stick Tennis
• Web MMO: Vega Conflict
• Web: Imperium Galactic War
• Web: The Few
• Web: Lego Marvel Superheroes Iron Man 3
• Web: The Family Jewels
• Web: A Cunning Plan
• Web: Latesha's Crib

Using: Ember2

(info here: Ember2)

• Android: Three Little Rockets

Using: RDBMS

(info here RDBMS with Code in Systems)

• Android: Heriswap
• Android: Recursive Runner

Proprietary / unknown

• Xbox360, PS3, Windows: Prototype (2009) and Prototype 2 (2012)
• Web/Facebook: My Vegas
• Skoolbo - a literacy and numeracy program with more than 60,000 questions designed to assist 4 to 10 year olds (blog post
• iOS, Android: World of Tanks Blitz (using custom game engine)

Unconfirmed / early entity-style games

• Windows: Thief: The Dark Project (1998) - "In Thief there was no code-based game object hierarchy of any kind."
• PS2, Xbox, GameCube: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (2001) - "a system of object composition from components when working at Neversoft, on the Tony Hawk series of games"
• Battlefield: Bad Company, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Frostbite engine)

Free / open-source

• Black Future (in development)
  • Early ES-based roguelike
• Desktop: Terasology (in development)
  • Minecraft-like in Java with extremely friendly modding support through ES magic
• Desktop: Entity System Pong (2012)
  • Console-based pong game. It uses a C++, win32 implementation of RDBMS Beta
  • Uses factory functions and a component factory with a std::map to initialize its components using pugixml.
• Android: Escape from the Pit (2011)
  • 48-hour Android game written using the RDBMS with code in Systems
• Web: Morgan's Raid
  • Educational game
  • Post-Mortem on the value of the ES
• Web: Asteroids
  • Asteroids game implemented using Ash, to demonstrate the architecture.