FEZ. Frankenstein Entity Zystem.

[coffee]

When I saw your entity/events idea (that I remembered see in some LOVE games) it stroke me that would be very useful to create some simple game GUI event/controller/behaviour like this very simple game creator "blaba" (no, no joking, is the name). it's for win/osx/lnx so try it.
http://lunduke.com/?p=3169

[ljdp]

You might want to consider programming this using metatables; the added flexibility would likely be beneficial for something like this. For example, you could require the programmer to explicitly list all of a component's dependencies. That said, I read article you linked to as well as all of the other posts in the series. I have to say: they seemed a bit psuedo-scientific to me.

I'm refactoring the whole thing to remove dependancy from middleclass. Component classes are closures while component instances use metatable __index lookup. I've also removed the entity class, entities are just a number you pass around.

[ljdp]

I've made quite a bit of changes to this, take a look at the new example on github to see how it's different. There's also a wiki now i've started to edit.
I might change the name to Frankenstein Entity System aka FEZ
(I just want to make a logo of Frankenstein wearing a fez.)

[Kingdaro]

LËSbian?

i thought this too but it seems ridiculously blunt to be honest, haha

[bartbes]

TOP-notch Lua Entity Set-up System aka TOPLESS.

[ljdp]

What do you think?

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[jradich]

Too... big

[ljdp]

Too... big

YEAAAAHH. Big's good no?
I did it in illustrator so it's easily resized, like on the OP.

[kexisse]

I just tried this after someone recommended it in another thread. However I can't get the example to run.
I downloaded the Zip from Github, extracted it and ran the following within the /example directory

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~/Downloads/perky-FEZ-5653242/example $ /Applications/love.app/Contents/MacOS/love .
Error: ../src/EntityManager.lua:102: Entity (0.039:NIL) does not exist.
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'assert'
	../src/EntityManager.lua:102: in function 'assert_entity_exists'
	../src/EntityManager.lua:122: in function 'getComponentFromEntity'
	../src/ComponentCache.lua:14: in function 'transform'
	controllers/InputController.lua:59: in function 'updateEntity'
	../src/ControllerManager.lua:178: in function 'updateEntities'
	../src/ControllerManager.lua:173: in function 'update'
	main.lua:37: in function 'update'
	[string "boot.lua"]:407: in function <[string "boot.lua"]:373>
	[C]: in function 'xpcall'

Should I run it another way?

[coffee]

I just tried this after someone recommended it in another thread. However I can't get the example to run.
I downloaded the Zip from Github, extracted it and ran the following within the /example directory

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~/Downloads/perky-FEZ-5653242/example $ /Applications/love.app/Contents/MacOS/love .
Error: ../src/EntityManager.lua:102: Entity (0.039:NIL) does not exist.
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'assert'
	../src/EntityManager.lua:102: in function 'assert_entity_exists'
	../src/EntityManager.lua:122: in function 'getComponentFromEntity'
	../src/ComponentCache.lua:14: in function 'transform'
	controllers/InputController.lua:59: in function 'updateEntity'
	../src/ControllerManager.lua:178: in function 'updateEntities'
	../src/ControllerManager.lua:173: in function 'update'
	main.lua:37: in function 'update'
	[string "boot.lua"]:407: in function <[string "boot.lua"]:373>
	[C]: in function 'xpcall'

Should I run it another way?

I got the same after put "src" in example folder (so should I assemble structure in another way?). I thought was some Work in Progress failure but now that I notice that you using OSX too could be also one of those OS only issues.