ECS in Practice: The Case Board of Alan Wake 2

GDC 2024 Speaker: Alexander Balakshin Company: Remedy Entertainment Format: Programming For Alan Wake 2 Remedy Entertainment is using a new data-oriented ECS gameplay framework instead of the previous object-oriented one. As a result we have performance gains such as cache coherency and multithreading out of the box. Also being implemented using some of the latest C features the new framework changes the way gameplay programmers write their code by providing them some extra convenience and productivity.We will present how this framework is used for implementing one of the games features the Case Board. We will cover how we describe the Case Board objects with components how we register their systems and how we interact with other modules camera cursor etc.. Finally well show how the interaction between C code and Lua scripts is organized.,

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