_Jumpy Items: Swords, Crates, Grenades, & Mines_

[Jumpy] ([GitHub][Jumpy], [Discord][jumpy_discord], [Twitter][jumpy_twitter]) by

[Spicy Lobster][spicy_lobster] is a pixel-style, tactical 2D shooter with a fishy

theme.

In the last month work started on a new architecture for the core Jumpy game loop.

Determinism and snapshot/restore functionality has been a challenge for

networking support in jumpy. To address this, Jumpy has started migrating the core

game loop to a custom, micro Entity Component System that is deterministic and can

be trivially snapshot and restored.

By being simple and planning to eventually support a pure C API, it's also

intended for the micro-ECS approach to make it vastly easier to create a

performant modding interface to Jumpy in the future.

Work has almost been finished on the new Bones ECS and the surrounding [Bones]

framework, which is still built on Bevy for rendering and otherwise talking to

the hardware. The hope is that Bones can become a framework for making other

games similar in scope to Jumpy, without those games have to re-invent everything

that was needed to get features like UI, networking, localization, asset loading,

etc.

As soon as the ECS migration is finished, the plan is to get the final game juicing

and polish done and to make a proper MVP release.

[Jumpy]: https://github.com/fishfolks/jumpy

[Bevy]: https://bevyengine.org

[jumpy_twitter]: https://twitter.com/spicylobsterfam

[jumpy_discord]: https://discord.gg/4smxjcheE5

[spicy_lobster]: https://spicylobster.itch.io

[Bones]: https://github.com/fishfolk/bones