cl-fast-ecs

cl-fast-ecs is a Common Lisp library providing an implementation of the Entity-Component-System pattern, primarily focused on speed and interactive game development.

ECS is an architectural data-oriented design pattern that allows for the effective processing of a large number of in-game objects while keeping the code and data separated. This provides flexibility in the way that game objects are built at runtime.

See the documentation page for more details.

Features

• Ability to interactively redefine components and systems on the fly.
• Ability to interactively add new components and systems on the fly.
• Native Lisp, no C/C++ code.
• Mininal external dependencies.

Games built with cl-fast-ecs

• Lispy Rogue
• Cycle of Evil
  
• Mana Break
  
• Thoughtbound

Installation

Just unpack the files to your Quicklisp’s local-projects directory and execute (ql:quickload :cl-fast-ecs) in your Lisp.