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entity component system

software architectural pattern used in video game development, with entities composed from components of data, and with systems which operate on entities' components
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entity component system

Summary

entity component system is an architectural pattern[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of architectural_pattern entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (694 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • entity component system's instance of is recorded as architectural pattern[3].
  • entity component system's has use is recorded as video game development[4].
  • entity component system's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0rfhjzh[5].
  • entity component system's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/entity-component-system[6].
  • entity component system's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/tags/entity-component-system[7].
  • entity component system's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/tags/entity-component-system[8].
  • entity component system's uses is recorded as observer pattern[9].
  • entity component system's GitHub topic is recorded as entity-component-system[10].

Why It Matters

entity component system ranks in the top 6% of architectural_pattern entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (694 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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