Jonathan Blow

@Jonathan_Blow Hey, can I ask why you don't like the whole ECS movement in games? Is it just because it's bad to take one architecture and apply it to every game ever? Should games chose architectures that solve their specific problems instead?

I believe he’s gone into detail about this in past streams but his answer is basically what you said above. It’s mostly overkill for most games and there just isn’t a silver bullet out there that fits all projects. At the end of the day simplicity is the name of the game.

Yea I suspected as much. I'll have to go find one of those streams, I have not seen most of them.

It's just that most games don't need anything that complicated. Example, neither Braid nor The Witness had anything remotely as complicated as a component architecture. It makes more sense when your job is to make a game engine that external people use without modifying much,