Elephant Game Framework

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shrt — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:04:45 GMT

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IMPORTANT

This project has been discontinued, but source remains in case someone wants to see an implementation of a component based entity systen (as described in the Game Programming Gems book series).

UPDATE

See http://componentk.it for a more recent implementation.

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shrt — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:04:36 GMT

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IMPORTANT

This project has been discontinued, but source remains in case someone wants to see an implementation of a component based entity systen (as described in the Game Programming Gems book series).

UPDATE

See http://componentk.it for a more recent implementation.

Updated Wiki: Home

shrt — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:04:33 GMT

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IMPORTANT

This project has been discontinued, but source remains in case someone wants to see an implementation of a component based entity systen (as described in the Game Programming Gems book series).

UPDATE

See http://componentk.it for a more recent implementation.

Updated Wiki: Home

shrt — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:03:57 GMT

Navigation:
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IMPORTANT

This project has been discontinued, but source remains in case someone wants to see an implementation of a component based entity systen (as described in the Game Programming Gems book series).

UPDATE

See http://componentk.it for a more recent implementation.

Updated Wiki: Home

shrt — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:03:48 GMT

Navigation:
Home / Documentation / Showcase

IMPORTANT

This project has been discontinued, but source remains in case someone wants to see an implementation of a component based entity systen (as described in the Game Programming Gems book series).

UPDATE

See http://componentk.it for a more recent implementation.

Updated Wiki: Home

shrt — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:02:44 GMT

Navigation:
Home / Documentation / Showcase

IMPORTANT

This project has been discontinued, but source remains in case someone wants to see an implementation of a component based entity systen (as described in the Game Programming Gems book series).

UPDATE

See http://componentk.it for a more recent implementation.

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New Post: SpinningPyramid Example

yobiv — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:28:41 GMT

in Cameras.xml
replace:
        <Component Type="Elephant.Utility.Components.Cameras.LookAtCamera" Assembly="Elephant.Utility" />
        <Component Type="Elephant.Utility.Components.Logic.Transform" Assembly="Elephant.Utility">
with:
        <Component Type="Elephant.Utility.Components.LookAtCamera" Assembly="Elephant.Utility" />
       <Component Type="Elephant.Utility.Components.Transform" Assembly="Elephant.Utility">

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shrt — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:51:55 GMT

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IMPORTANT

This project has been discontinued, but source remains in case someone wants to see an implementation of a component based entity systen (as described in the Game Programming Gems book series).

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shrt — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:43:41 GMT

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Introduction

What is it

Serving as the foundation for any game project, from prototype to the real deal, Elephant is a small and lightweight game framework that offers an aggregation based approach to composing, and managing game objects.
Its goal is to provide developers with a quick, easy, robust and flexible foundation to produce game prototypes, or even fully-fledged games.

How does it work

Elephant uses a component-model structure in which you visualize the world as a collection of entities and an entity as a collection of components (behaviors/functionalities). This concept is known as aggregation (entities are aggregates of components), and is an alternative to the old, most commonly used, way of inheritance where a complex game will end up with deep hierarchies of heavily specialized game objects.

Through the component-model implementation we force functionality out of all these specialized game objects, and move it into smaller, more maintainable, independent and self-contained components that will then offer the specific functionality - ready to serve as part of an entity.

Why is it useful

Since the system allows for run-time composition of entities and great re-usability of components, a world of data-driven goodness opens up.

By implementing your game idea using Elephant, you will achieve:

Easily maintainable code
Great re-usability of code, without introducing redundancy
Run-time composition of entities
Data-driven possibilities

Links

References

Game Programming Gems 6, 4.6, "Game Object Component System"

Other

Mick West, "Evolve Your Heirachy" (great explanation)
OTEE Unity3D, http://unity3d.com/ (great inspiration)

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shrt — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:56:27 GMT

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Introduction

What is it

How does it work

Why is it useful

Easily maintainable code
Great re-usability of code, without introducing redundancy
Run-time composition of entities
Data-driven possibilities

Links

References

Game Programming Gems 6, 4.6, "Game Object Component System"

Other

Mick West, "Evolve Your Heirachy" (great explanation)
OTEE Unity3D, http://unity3d.com/ (great inspiration)

UPDATED WIKI: Archives

shrt — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:43:52 GMT

Archived News

August 12th, 2007

Added a Showcase page, showing off some projects using the framework. :)

July 14th, 2007

Documentation is now available in PDF. Link can be found in the navigation menu. :)

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shrt — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:42:42 GMT

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Introduction

What is it

Elephant is a small Game Framework, currently set with a focus on game development through Microsoft XNA.
Its goal is to provide developers with a quick, easy, robust and flexible way to produce game prototypes, or even full-fledged games.

How does it work

Why is it useful

Easily maintainable code
Great re-usability of code, without introducing redundancy
Run-time composition of entities
Data-driven possibilities

Links

References

Game Programming Gems 6, 4.6, "Game Object Component System"

Other

Mick West, "Evolve Your Heirachy" (great explanation)
OTEE Unity3D, http://unity3d.com/ (great inspiration)

Source code checked in

shrt — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:34:29 GMT

* Changed namespaces in Elephant.Utility, so that you only have to reference Elephant.Utility.Components and not each sub-category.

CREATED ISSUE: Add feature to allow parameters in dependencies

shrt — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:43:35 GMT

Components that are specified as dependencies must implement an empty constructor, and thus removing the possibility to pass parameters to a dependency upon construction.

This is currently due to limitations on attributes used on classes; you can't pass most stuff. Primitive datatypes are accepted, but stuff like Vector3.Zero is not.

NEW POST: using XML for scene loading an saving

shrt — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:14:24 GMT

Yea, I used that in an early iteration, and it worked pretty good. However there were one major flaw with that approach; the Serializable attribute is not inherited, so it was not enough just marking EntityComponent with it. You had to mark every single component. Because of that I ditched the idea temporarily, but it is definitely something im gonna implement again at some point, when I get a better idea for a solution that is flexible enough to work for any component.

:)

NEW POST: using XML for scene loading an saving

adribeiro — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:09:09 GMT

Hi,

Why you not mark all game components with Seriable attribute and use XMLSerializer for save or loagind tha scene graph?

Source code checked in

shrt — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:20:24 GMT

* Added some xml files to SpinningPyramid sample, showing how to use the newly added xml template feature.

Elephant Game Framework

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Updated Wiki: Home

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Updated Wiki: Home

IMPORTANT

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Updated Wiki: Home

IMPORTANT

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Updated Wiki: Home

IMPORTANT

UPDATE

Source code checked in, #63489

New Post: SpinningPyramid Example

UPDATED WIKI: Home

IMPORTANT

UPDATED WIKI: Home

Recent News

Introduction

What is it

How does it work

Why is it useful

UPDATED WIKI: Home

Recent News

Introduction

What is it

How does it work

Why is it useful

UPDATED WIKI: Archives

Archived News

UPDATED WIKI: Home

Recent News

Introduction

What is it

How does it work

Why is it useful

Source code checked in

CREATED ISSUE: Add feature to allow parameters in dependencies

NEW POST: using XML for scene loading an saving

NEW POST: using XML for scene loading an saving

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