Foundation

This blog was created to record and share some of my progress during the development of the FireStorm game engine, which began life roughly a year ago today.
Recently, I've been working on two related things: software support for hardware concurrency at the game engine level, and data-oriented entity component system technology that can best leverage today's multicore hardware while taking full advantage of the benefits of software composition.

Inspiration has come from many places and people, but special thanks go out to L. Spiro and Niklas
Frykholm whose words have been particularly inspirational.

Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea.

Bernard of Chartres used to compare us to puny dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants.
He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision, or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature.