image from crimelife 2, one of the most downloaded games from the yoyogames game maker sandbox. a 3d character of slightly odd proportions stands in front of a wardrobe in a nondescript room. in white italic cursive text in the top-left corner it says: Use Q or E to rotate character. W, A, S, D to change clothes. below that in papyrus font it says: TORSO (with chevrons highlighting it as selected) LEGS SHOES

new bot: @yygarchive.bsky.social

random games from the yoyogames game maker sandbox (2007-2016) every few hours.

based on the database at www.yygarchive.org, with additional images scraped from the wayback machine.

you can download and play these games!

image from crimelife 2, one of the most downloaded games from the yoyogames game maker sandbox. a 3d character of slightly odd proportions stands in front of a wardrobe in a nondescript room. in white italic cursive text in the top-left corner it says: Use Q or E to rotate character. W, A, S, D to change clothes. below that in papyrus font it says: TORSO (with chevrons highlighting it as selected) LEGS SHOES

new bot: @yygarchive.bsky.social

random games from the yoyogames game maker sandbox (2007-2016) every few hours.

based on the database at www.yygarchive.org, with additional images scraped from the wayback machine.

you can download and play these games!

How to Keep a Man Interested

the blather / the mentality / the laborer / the innovation

why cant I, hold all these underpantses?

why cant I, hold all these underpantses?

How to Stop Judging and Criticizing People

basically i think it's perfectly normal for ecs setups to have many of these "1:1" things, ie. one component fairly tightly bound to one system (which might depend on some other components too). you might even want to colocate the component and system in the same file for convenience

but those systems can depend on other components (either other "behaviours" you defined or built-ins like physics, transform, rendering etc, of which you'll usually need at least a few to do videogame type stuff)

iirc you never really used unity but i think the way it works (before it introduced its more recent, opt-in "proper" ecs) might be a useful point of reference? you have entities and component-systems fused together (as "behaviours"). ie. there's a 1:1 relationship between components and systems

i don't think anything is cheating!! it's just about flexibility and ease of breaking things out down the line, right? imo a good heuristic (not just for players, for lots of things) is like "chunky until proven otherwise"

porting bots:
@limesguy.bsky.social
@heathbot.bsky.social

botsin.space A Mastodon instance for bots and bot allies.

botsin.space going down was laser-timed to force me to cave and port my bots to busky i guess

exciting! looking forward to hearing how it goes

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