Aztecs

A modular game engine and ECS for Haskell. An ECS is a modern approach to organizing your application state as a database, providing patterns for data-oriented design and parallel processing.

Aztecs provides side-effect free components and systems, as well as backends for rendering and input (such as aztecs-sdl), allowing you to structure your game as simple function of Input -> World -> World. For more information, please see the documentation on Hackage.

Aztecs: An Empirical Entity Component System (ECS) for Haskell [Draft]

Examples

Features

• High-performance: Components are stored by their unique sets in archetypes
• Dynamic components: Scripts and remote interfaces can create runtime-specified components
• Type-safe DSL: Queries and systems use Arrow syntax for compile-time gurantees
• Modular design: Aztecs can be extended for a variety of use cases

Packages

• aztecs-sdl

  

  SDL window management and rendering support.

• aztecs-sdl-image

  

  SDL image and spritesheet rendering support.

• aztecs-sdl-text

  

  SDL text rendering support.

Inspiration

Aztecs' approach to type-safety is inspired by Bevy, but with direct archetype-based storage similar to Flecs.