fennecs 0.5.9-beta

fennecs is a lightweight, performant, and expressive ECS library for game & simulations written in modern C#.

It's designed to be easy to use, with minimal boilerplate and no code generation or reflection required.

🚀 Quickstart

📦> dotnet add package fennecs

Here's a simple example to get you started:

// Declare a component record. (we can also use most existing value & reference types)
record struct Velocity(Vector3 Value);

// Create a world. (fyi, World implements IDisposable)
var world = new fennecs.World();

// Spawn an entity into the world with a choice of components. (or add/remove them later)
var entity = world.Spawn().Add<Velocity>();

// Queries are cached & we use ultra-lightweight Stream Views to feed data to our code!
var stream = world.Query<Velocity>().Stream();

// Run code on all entities in the query. (exchange 'For' with 'Job' for parallel processing)
stream.For(
    uniform: DeltaTime * 9.81f * Vector3.UnitZ,
    static (Vector3 uniform, ref Velocity velocity) =>
    {
        velocity.Value -= uniform;
    }
);

🌟 Key Features

• Modern C# codebase targeting .NET 8
• Archetype-based storage for cache-friendly iteration
• Expressive, queryable relations between entities and components
• Easy parallelization of workloads across and within archetypes
• Zero codegen and minimal boilerplate

📚 Learn More

Check out the fennecs website for:

• 📖 API documentation
• 🍳 Cookbook with tasty recipes
• 🎮 Demo projects to get inspired

Happy coding! 🦊❤️