Helghast

Helghast is a next-gen game engine for the web.

It is currently a giant playground and highly experimental

Overview

At this stage of the project these are mostly goals.

• Data-Oriented Design
• Mutable functional style programming
• Entity-component-system
• Sub systems parallelised across workers
• Written with Typescript and compiled to WebAssembly
  • Scripting in Javascript or Typescript
• Service boundaries for portability

What's in the box (aka. todo list)

• Application. Binds all pieces together and contains the update loop.
• World. A representation of the game.
  • Entities. Unique collections of Components.
  • Components. Purely data. Have no logic.
    • InputtableComponent - Provides entities with access to user input.
    • NodeComponent - A representation of this entity within the world heirarchy.
    • RigidBodyComponent - A physical representation of this entity for physics purposes.
    • ScriptComponent - An extendable component for writing game logic.
    • CollisionComponent - Contains info about an entities collision bounds
    • ...
  • Systems. Act on components. Have logic.
    • InputSystem - Consumes user input and provides to entities with InputtableComponent.
    • ScriptSystem - Manages user scripts of entities with ScriptComponent
    • PhysicsSystem - Manages physics updates of entities with RigidBodyComponent & CollisionComponent.
    • ...
• Services. Provide application boundary access.
  • LoggerService - Allows logging of information.
  • BenchmarkService - Allows benchmarking of application.
  • InputService - Provides interface to user input.
  • AudioService - Provides low latency audio playback.
  • DisplayService - Provides a way to render graphics to screen.
  • FileService - Provides a way to load various files.
  • ...

License

MIT