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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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 — 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)

UPDATED WIKI: Archives

shrt — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:14:01 GMT

Archived News

August 12th, 2007

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

August 11th, 2007

Due to heavy re-designing and re-factoring, i've taken down the documentation until it's been updated. Good news is that the new and improved framework is already working on the xbox, and has undergone an extensive amount of performance optimizations in the process.

August 5th, 2007

The source will undergo a rather large refactoring when time permits, as I have realized that the current design is built, somewhat naively, on one-path/best-case scenarios. This action is also planned to make the project xbox360 compatible (which means performance optimizations will have to be done), and XNA.Game independent to meet other needs.

July 14th, 2007

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

UPDATED WIKI: Home

shrt — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:04:18 GMT

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Recent News

August 12th, 2007

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

August 11th, 2007

Due to heavy re-designing and re-factoring, i've taken down the documentation until it's been updated. Good news is that the new and improved framework is already working on the xbox, and has undergone an extensive amount of performance optimizations in the process.

August 5th, 2007

The source will undergo a rather large refactoring when time permits, as I have realized that the current design is built, somewhat naively, on one-path/best-case scenarios. This action is also planned to make the project xbox360 compatible (which means performance optimizations will have to be done), and XNA.Game independent to meet other needs.

July 14th, 2007

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

Archives

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: Home

shrt — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:42:57 GMT

Navigation:
Home / Documentation / Showcase / Tutorials Examples

Recent News

August 12th, 2007

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

August 11th, 2007

Due to heavy re-designing and re-factoring, i've taken down the documentation until it's been updated. Good news is that the new and improved framework is already working on the xbox, and has undergone an extensive amount of performance optimizations in the process.

August 5th, 2007

The source will undergo a rather large refactoring when time permits, as I have realized that the current design is built, somewhat naively, on one-path/best-case scenarios. This action is also planned to make the project xbox360 compatible (which means performance optimizations will have to be done), and XNA.Game independent to meet other needs.

July 14th, 2007

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

Archives

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: Home

shrt — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:41:09 GMT

Navigation:
Home / Documentation / Showcase / Tutorials Examples

Recent News

August 12th, 2007

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

August 11th, 2007

Due to heavy re-designing and re-factoring, i've taken down the documentation until it's been updated. Good news is that the new and improved framework is already working on the xbox, and has undergone an extensive amount of performance optimizations in the process.

August 5th, 2007

The source will undergo a rather large refactoring when time permits, as I have realized that the current design is built, somewhat naively, on one-path/best-case scenarios. This action is also planned to make the project xbox360 compatible (which means performance optimizations will have to be done), and XNA.Game independent to meet other needs.

July 14th, 2007

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

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: Showcase

shrt — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:32:22 GMT

The following projects are all built using the framework, written by myself. If you happen to be using the framework, I would be happy to put up screenshots showing your use of it.

Work In Progress

Spring Modeler

Medister, shoot-kill game

No name, 48h competition game

UPDATED WIKI: Showcase

shrt — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:30:52 GMT

The following projects are all built using the framework, written by myself. If you happen to be using the framework, I would be happy to put up screenshots showing your use of it.

Work In Progress

Spring Modeler

Medister, shoot-kill game*
Enlarge
Enlarge
Enlarge

No name, 48h competition game

UPDATED WIKI: Showcase

shrt — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:19:35 GMT

The following projects are all built using the framework, written by myself. If you happen to be using the framework, I would be happy to put up screenshots showing your use of it.

Work In Progress

Spring Modeler

No name, 48h competition game

UPDATED WIKI: Showcase

shrt — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:13:52 GMT

The following projects are all built using the framework, written by myself. If you happen to be using the framework, I would be happy to put up screenshots showing your use of it.

Work In Progress

Spring Modeler

No name, 48h competition game

Screen 1 Enlarge
Screen 2 Enlarge
Screen 3 Enlarge

UPDATED WIKI: Showcase

shrt — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:12:36 GMT

The following projects are all built using the framework, written by myself. If you happen to be using the framework, I would be happy to put up screenshots showing your use of it.

Work In Progress

Spring Modeler

Screen 1 Enlarge
Screen 2 Enlarge

No name, 48h competition game

Screen 1 Enlarge
Screen 2 Enlarge
Screen 3 Enlarge