New #devlog is up! While I'm spending most of my time on research and writing, there's little time left for implementing new game ideas - but that doesn't mean the underlying core can't benefit from all that theory: garagecraft.games/devlog/2026-... #ecs #database #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

In my Master's thesis at Trier University of Applied Sciences, I investigate how partitioning entities and their components affects parallelism and concurrency in ECS architectures. 🧵 1/6 #ECS #indiegames #indiedevs #gamedev

All hail the type-erasure idiom, ancient gatekeeper between the Realm of Generic Infrastructure and the Wildlands of Custom Implementations! ⚔️ None shall pass with their concrete type exposed! 🧙‍♂️ #indiedev #gamedev #enginedev #cpp #indiedev #gamedev #enginedev #cpp

GarageCraft Games@garagecraft.games · 2w ago

They are the same picture! 👀 I've been improving the #helios dev experience by implementing a compile-time dependency resolver for game-specific systems and managers. Goodbye to the UpdateContext, supreme ruler of #infrastructure and omniscient know-it-all! #indiegames #indiedev 👾

#starcitizen #squadron42 - a drama in the making. Scope creep, tech debt, mismanagement, overengineering... It seems to have it all. I don't know whether better team organization and a clear set of goals could have led to an earlier release, but with that budget, I think it should have.

The process of #annealing, known from various crafts, has an interesting parallel in #softwaredevelopment: Repeatedly working and refining a prototype until the refactored system eventually settles into a stable, production-ready form. #craftsmanship #dev #engineering #programming

#indiedev #indiegames #enginedev

GarageCraft Games@garagecraft.games · last mo.

#GameWorld in #helios has come a long way. On my journey towards a system scheduler supporting conflict-free concurrency, the #EcsWorld now serves as the underlying #ECS, providing domain-specific partitions & #GameWorld acts as a container for runtime resources and engine-level state information.

Im Rahmen seiner BA-Arbeit an der HS Neu-Ulm untersucht einer meiner Studenten, wie Menschen eine kurze audiovisuelle Szene wahrnehmen & interpretieren. Die Teilnahme dauert ca. 10 Minuten. Mit Deiner Unterstützung leistest du einen wertvollen Beitrag zu seiner Arbeit. Vielen Dank fürs Mitmachen!

I'm gonna thrive on that coffee. ☕

GarageCraft Games@garagecraft.games · 2mo ago

On todays menu: Particle partitioning with ParticleEmitter and integration into the EngineWorld. 👾 Happy Saturday y'all, may your code be bug free and your frame times low. 🚀 #helios #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #enginedev

A rendering demo showcasing parallel #ECS execution in #helios. Systems in a domain-partitioned world run concurrently, record render commands (non-/instanced), then flush their command buffers. The RenderManager batches and processes the commands. #enginedev #gameengine #indiedev #indiegames

In our ongoing series about researchers, we portrait the people wo bring game studies forward and define how game making is taught at universities. Today in the spotlight is @gamestudies.bsky.social of Hochschule Neu-Ulm and columnist here at GamesMarket. www.gamesmarket.global/researcher-s...

Researcher Spotlight: Rudolf Thomas Inderst

In our ongoing series about games researchers, we portrait the people wo bring game studies forward and define how game making is taught and learned at universities. Today in the spotlight is Rudolf I...

gamesmarket.global

Besides working on my research on Entity Component Systems as a relational model and my master's thesis on domain-specific world partitions in ECS, I thought it was about time to finally release the outcome of my project assignment from the Winter Semester 2025/26. 🤘 #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

GarageCraft Games@garagecraft.games · 2mo ago

👾 You have only 3 lives. An unforgiving collision system. And no sound at all. Because in space, no one can hear you scream... (we call this "immersive"). Download helios ascending now! 🎮 garagecraft.games/helios-ascen... #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #ecs #enginedev

Conway's Game of Life running on #helios #ECS engine with 22,500 entities. Every cell is an entity, updated in real time. Fun stress test for iteration throughput, cache locality, and deterministic updates, and part of my MCSc #thesis project. #gamedev #cpp #ecs #gameoflife #gameengine

I remember how fascinated I was by #Doom's bsp-based visibility system... For #helios I opted on non-hierarchical #AABB #culling #algorithm (Miettinen), testing against every scene member and switching MaterialHandles to highlight culled and visible objects. On to #BSP now! #gamedev #indiegames

Building on the foundation established with #helios, I’ve refactored the project into self-contained modules. helios::ecs now forms the base #ECS system for everything entity-related - w/ most inheritance based impls thrown overboard in favor of concepts. #gamedev #enginedev #indiegames

"We have #Saros at home."

10/10 #gamedev. Sometimes a #bug reveals a better design than the original intention ever did. I mean, when was the last time you adventured around with a perma #cat on your shoulder? #crimsondesert

Cleared out a lot of technical debt: Removed circular dependencies, made #helios compile cleanly under the more demanding #Clang compiler (#MSVC, thanks for letting my first baby steps slide), and cleaned up a fair bit of mess. #helios is now on #macOS 🍎 #indiedev #indiegames #gameengine

You could bind your (gameplay) systems to the various states of a state machine - once the game is in state "paused", do not process specific systems in the game loop. Makes it easy to consider those systems that should still be running (e.g. ui, input).

Zack Zwiezen@zackzwiezen.com · 5mo ago

Game devs, plz tell me how "pausing the game" works in your game? Is it weird? Is it simple? Is it janky? I'm curious how such a common feature--the ability to pause and check your settings, etc--actually works & what happens when players hit pause! Reply / DM / email me at - Zzwiezen@kotaku.com

Finished and published the report on #helios, my C++ game engine that slowly shifted from #OOP toward DOD #ECS. What started as a small prototype turned into a deeper dive into #architecture, #performance and trade-offs. I enjoyed the ride tremendously! 🕹️ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) helios: Explorative Entwicklung einer ECS-basierten Game Engine

PDF | Wir stellen helios vor, eine in C++ entwickelte, ECS-basierte Game-Engine zur Umsetzung eines Geometry Wars-Klons. Das Dokument geht auf die... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

researchgate.net

On #helios’ way toward an #ECS-driven infrastructure, I’m rewriting resource management, abstracting it into a TypedHandleWorld - a handle-oriented, domain-specific registry that simplifies access to resources otherwise scattered across the system(s). #gameengine #enginedev #indiedev #indiegames

OUT NOW! 😍

helios is currently rendering ~10.000 objects in the #gameloop at stable 60 fps (w/o inst.). Lets crank those rookie numbers up and make sure the render resources are managed more cache friendly, render commands batched and queues optimally sorted. #gamedev #helios #enginedev #indiegames #indiedev

finished my project assignment on the exploratory dev of an #ECS-based #gameengine. Now it’s time to refactor the remaining tech debt into more idiomatic ECS. Out with the old (SceneGraph), in with the new! (flat list of components sharing relationships) #helios #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Als jemand, der sich selbst intensiv mit Game Engines und Spielentwicklung beschäftigt, finde ich die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Spielerfolg und Spielforschung besonders spannend. Wandert auf meine Leseliste! 📖

Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him)@gamestudies.bsky.social · 7mo ago

F R I S C H ERSCHIENEN Inderst, Rudolf/ Tobias Klös: Spielerfolg ungleich Spielforschungserfolg? Vom stagnierenden Zustand der deutschsprachigen Digital Game Studies. S. 131–148. In: ...

Migrated helios' architecture to an #ECS-based setup, and reworked the #gameloop to allow much finer-grained control over when events become visible and when commands are applied. 📖 garagecraft.games/devlog/2026-... #devlog #helios #indiedev #indiegames #dod

ECS refactor drop in #helios 🔧 Value-type GameObject handles, tag-based filtering, centralized component registration, plus new unit tests. #gamedev #cpp #ecs #indiedev #gameengine #indiegames #enginedev

Now that collision detection and SpawnPlans are in place, I’m moving on to 2D UI integration - score display and menus next. Let’s go! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #helios #twitch #streamer twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

If someone had told me a while ago that I’d be here - building collision detection and spawn systems in my own engine (that should have been a framework) - I probably wouldn’t have believed them. Really happy with how far this has come. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #enginedev

GarageCraft Games@garagecraft.games · 8mo ago

✅ Collision Detection - working ✅ Spawn Scheduling - implemented Next: Span queues & support for more Spawn logic. Let's go! 🔧 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gameengine #helios

Graphics APIs – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow - a new article on my blog (in English and Polish version) asawicki.info/articles/gra...

Reduce it to N and N+1 and, suddenly, determinism is just induction.

GarageCraft Games@garagecraft.games · 8mo ago

Over the holidays I’ve been busy refining #helios to enable player interactions with game objects: Controlling, spawning and – the holy grail of every game - Collisions💥 I ended up with this draft for a deterministic game loop: garagecraft.games/devlog/2026-... #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #cpp