IRDC US 2015 - Brian Bucklew, Data-Driven Engines of Qud and Sproggiwood
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it for insight into how the Caves of Qud developer thinks about game engines.
What it is
Brian Bucklew of Freehold Games discusses design decisions behind Caves of Qud and Sproggiwood at IRDC 2015. The talk centers on data-driven, event-driven engine design.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2022 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends edem · 2023-09 · on “Brian Bucklew Porting Caves of Qud from Unity to Godot”
If you're interested in how Brian thinks take a look at this video: [this video] I've learned a lot from this back in the day!
Cites and0 · 2022-04 · on “OpenMW becomes a general-purpose engine for isometric RPGs”
I'm pretty far into a project to create a Typescript framework for turn and tile-based (think roguelikes) client/server games: [LINK] . Mix of entity-component and event-driven design (inspired by Brian Bucklew [this video] and Thomas Biksup [LINK] , though looking now I'm surprised I landed on a similar but imo more robust event system as I was only looking at EC pattern at the time). Typescript means entity factories and their components can be fully written in the language rather than XML per the videos above, and people can for example distribute a package that is basically DnD5e or Pathfinder rulesets, custom world generators, or anything else to be plugged into a published game. Typical Min
Cites cdiamand · 2024-12 · on “Mapping all 13.8 gigapixels of the Caves of Qud world map”
I come back to it from time to time and play for a week. It looks like it's been getting more accessible over time, with a new UI update having been rolled out recently. There's definitely a certain mindset that helps make it more enjoyable. Imagination being key! From the technical side, the developers have peeled back the curtain on how they've created parts of the game: [this video] [LINK]