Month: July 2022

With the rewrite to Rust, the Medusa system is moving from a Javascript prototype-based engine (half OO, half data-driven) to a strictly typed entity component system, which is a somewhat confusing model to wrap one’s head around. My best understanding to date for the entity component system is along the lines of, a warehouse of…

One of the major hurdles I have struggled to overcome is the lack of exploration for engine determinism and its ramifications for building up a quality platform for a long-term game. Often the topic is glossed over or even outright ignored, with no discussion of seeding random values, writing multithreading such that order of operations…

With the renewed interest between my friends and I in development of Medusa, our 8-bit love letter to the NES era of puzzle games, I’ve engaged with the Rust programming language for the construction of the engine. The language makes a certain design pattern first class, which I want to discuss here. (Disclaimer: I am…