A Weird Rust Engine: proto-ecs
Luis Diaz / January 2024 (160 Words, 1 Minutes)
TL;DR: This is an index for a series of articles where I document the progress in some key areas of a project I’m working on with a friend to implement a multithreaded game engine based on an interesting object model.
A few months ago a good friend of mine, Christian Oliveros, shared with me an amazing video from Bobby Angelov where he explains an interesting architecture for a game engine’s object model:
In this video Bobby starts with a simple crash course about game engine object models, their characteristics, and issues, emphasizing the problem of debugging and parallelizing gameplay code for a traditional engine.
He then proceeds with the most interesting part for us, the architecture for an object model where he attacks most of these problems. It’s interesting because the result is a design where parallelism is trivial and errors are harder to occur in the first place.
Chris is an experienced engine programmer and he wanted to give it a try to this architecture, and since he knows that I want to learn more about engine development and Rust, he invited me to work with him on his implementation which is made in Rust.
We have had some cool advances in our project so far and since it’s quite a long journey, I wanted to start documenting some of the most interesting solutions we have come up with, and that’s a big part of the purpose of this blog.
Article Index
I will update this section from time to time whenever I write a new article about this project. Don’t expect this to be a step-by-step tutorial about the entire project, since I don’t have that much time. I just want to write about interesting bits of project that we have encountered. I hope you learn as much as I learned working on this project :)
- [2024-01-05] Introduction
- [2024-02-05] Data types registration in Rust
- [2024-05-13] Memory Allocators