Comments on: What’s in an Entity http://www.anotherearlymorning.com/2009/03/whats-in-an-entity/ Game development, design, and discussion Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:30:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: aschearer http://www.anotherearlymorning.com/2009/03/whats-in-an-entity/comment-page-1/#comment-144 aschearer Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:38:11 +0000 http://www.anotherearlymorning.com/?p=483#comment-144 <p>Hey Mike, I'd be happy to share. So far I've used the above setup in a flash game. In flash a Sprite or Movieclip defaults to being a Passive-Intangible entity -- that is it simply has a position in space and renders to each frame. So all I needed to do was define what Tangible and Active entities are. </p> <p>So far the division of responsibility has been very helpful. For instance, I have two types of scritable events: ones which are fired when some physical event occurs and those which are fired when some non-physical event occurs. This maps directly to the Tangible-Active paradigm meaning that I didn't have to diverge from my core interfaces when implementing my scripting engine.</p> <p>Anyway feel free to follow up with some more questions if you have them.</p> Hey Mike, I’d be happy to share. So far I’ve used the above setup in a flash game. In flash a Sprite or Movieclip defaults to being a Passive-Intangible entity — that is it simply has a position in space and renders to each frame. So all I needed to do was define what Tangible and Active entities are.

So far the division of responsibility has been very helpful. For instance, I have two types of scritable events: ones which are fired when some physical event occurs and those which are fired when some non-physical event occurs. This maps directly to the Tangible-Active paradigm meaning that I didn’t have to diverge from my core interfaces when implementing my scripting engine.

Anyway feel free to follow up with some more questions if you have them.

]]> By: Mike http://www.anotherearlymorning.com/2009/03/whats-in-an-entity/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Mike Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:09:12 +0000 http://www.anotherearlymorning.com/?p=483#comment-143 <p>I am approaching a point in my development of classes I'm writing on the iPhone to think about game entities. Your description above is interesting and I'd certainly be interested to hear more about how you see this working in practice.</p> <p>Regards</p> <p>Mike</p> I am approaching a point in my development of classes I’m writing on the iPhone to think about game entities. Your description above is interesting and I’d certainly be interested to hear more about how you see this working in practice.

Regards

Mike

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