The 2013 StackExchange post [1] describes what is now commonly called an “archetype” based ECS architecture that was implemented as compile time archetypes in the author’s open source project in Feb 2018 [2]. A similar ECS model was described later in the June 2018 patent filed by Unity [3] and active since 2020.
It’s useful to bring visibility to the issue for the inevitable patent trolling that will occur in the future.
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Software patents are such evil bullshit. As if ECS hadn’t been developed 20 years earlier and described in numerous papers and GDC talks after.
Corporate loves to steal ideas and patent it/copyright it so nobody else gets to steal it next, even the original author of a technique.