Glossary

Archetype

Archetypes provide quick access to combinations of components.

Component

Data that belongs to an Entity.

ComponentID

As with EntityID, component IDs allow filtering entities by which components they contain.

Domain

A collection of Systems bundled under a common name.

ECS

Entity Component System

The programming paradigm this package is all about. ECS replaces object oriented programming and inheritance with an engine that runs systems on combinations of components.

Read the link given in Introduction for a full description.

Entity

The representation of an object in ECS. With tinyecs, this is just an identifier

EntityID

The identifier of an entity that’s used to access data in the ECS.

Property

A property is just a label that belongs to an entity. It can be used by functions like tinyecs.run_system() to add additional filtering besides the combination of components.

pygame-ce

A few years ago, the frequent contributors to the “original” pygame decided to fork the project after the person who manages the github site and the domain frequently got unresponsive for months and progress was stalling.

This resulted in the pygame-ce project which is actively maintained, has seen a plethora of optimizations since the fork, and is with very few exceptions a drop-in replacement for pygame. As of this writing, pygame hasn’t been updated in 1.5 years and doesn’t provide wheels for the latest python version, and platforms other than windows.

System

The functions that replace methods in object oriented programming. Systems get called with a set of components they work on.