EnTT in Action

EnTT in Action

EnTT is widely used in private and commercial applications. I cannot even mention most of them because of some signatures I put on some documents time ago. Fortunately, there are also people who took the time to implement open source projects based on EnTT and did not hold back when it came to documenting them.

Below an incomplete list of games, applications and articles that can be used as a reference. Where I put the word apparently means that the use of EnTT is documented but the authors didn't make explicit announcements or contacted me directly.

I hope this list can grow much more in the future:

• Games:

  • Minecraft by Mojang: of course, that Minecraft, see the open source attributions page for more details.
  • Land of the Rair: the new backend of a retro-style MUD for the new age.
  • Openblack: open source reimplementation of the game Black & White (2001).
  • Face Smash: a game to play with your face.
  • EnTT Pacman: an example of how to make Pacman with EnTT.
  • Wacman: a pacman clone with OpenGL.
  • Classic Tower Defence: a tiny little tower defence game featuring a homemade font. Check it out.
  • The Machine: a box pushing puzzler with logic gates and other cool stuff. Check it out.
  • EnttPong: an example of how to make Pong with EnTT.
  • Randballs: simple SFML and EnTT playground.
  • EnTT Tower Defense: a data oriented tower defense example.
  • EnTT Breakout: simple example of a breakout game, using SDL and EnTT.
  • Arcade puzzle game with EnTT: arcade puzzle game made in C++ using the SDL2 and EnTT libraries.
  • Snake with EnTT: simple snake game made in C++ with the SDL2 and EnTT libraries.
  • Mirrors lasers and robots: a small tower defense game based on mirror orientation.

• Engines and the like:

  • Fling Engine: A Vulkan game engine with a focus on data oriented design.
  • Apparently Wisp by Team Wisp: an advanced real-time ray tracing renderer built for the demands of video game artists.
  • starlight: game programming framework using Allegro, Lua and modern C++.
  • Apparently Qub3d: because blocks should be open source.
  • shiva: modern C++ engine with modularity.
  • NovusCore: A modern take on World of Warcraft emulation.
  • ImGui/EnTT editor: A drop-in, single-file entity editor for EnTT that uses ImGui as graphical backend (with demo code).

• Articles and blog posts:

  • Some posts on my personal blog are about EnTT, for those who want to know more on this project.
  • Space Battle: Huge edition: huge space battle built entirely from scratch.
  • Space Battle: huge space battle built on UE4.
  • Experimenting with ECS in UE4: interesting article about UE4 and EnTT.
  • Implementing ECS architecture in UE4: giant space battle.
  • Conan Adventures (SFML and EnTT in C++): create projects in modern C++ using SFML, EnTT, Conan and CMake.

• Any Other Business:

  • The ArcGIS Runtime SDKs by Esri: they use EnTT for the internal ECS and the cross platform C++ rendering engine. The SDKs are utilized by a lot of enterprise custom apps, as well as by Esri for its own public applications such as Explorer, Collector and Navigator.
  • Apparently NIO: there was a collaboration to make some changes to EnTT, at the time used for internal projects.
  • Apparently Tieto: they published a job post where EnTT was listed on their software stack.
  • Godot meets EnTT: A simple example on how to use EnTT within Godot.
  • Godot and GameNetworkingSockets meet EnTT: A simple example on how to use EnTT and GameNetworkingSockets within Godot.
  • MatchOneEntt: port of Match One for Entitas-CSharp.
  • GitHub contains also many other examples of use of EnTT from which to take inspiration if interested.

If you know of other resources out there that are about EnTT, feel free to open an issue or a PR and I'll be glad to add them to this page.