StevenMDixon / EventList

🌾 Idea for a event list engine, using programming paradigms to solve an issue

Eventlist

Eventlist is a manager for and event system built for games or other event based apps.

This is my attempt to code a management system for these items.

Core Idea

Start with a Linked list style object

give the user the ability to add items to the list

let complexity evolve into the system in the form of features.

Ideas

• Implement socket io into the mix? or make it easy for a user to do so

• Need a kill switch incase the user wants to clear the events from the stack because of another event.

• Events can add events to the stack.

• Add await in the mix? to help handle async functions?

Design Iterations

1. using class to generate an object.

• Issue: have to create a new object each time and the list will have to passed around

2. Using Closure to generate a function based system.

• Seems to be working
• How to determine when the events are cleared? promises

Use

The idea is that event list aggregates events based on user inputs and runs them

// in main file
import eventList from "eventlist";
import Player from "./player.js";

const myGameLoop = () => {

  eventList.addEvent((next)=> {update(); next();});
  eventList.addEvent((next)=> {draw(); next();})
  eventList.run()
  .then(()=>{
    window.requestAnimationFrame(myGameLoop);
  })
}

// in player file
import eventList from "eventlist";

const Player = {
  x: 0,
  y: 0,
  Move: function(){
    eventList.addEvent(
      (next())=>{
        this.x += 1;
        next();
      }
    );
  }
}

Although writing this out, it seems like a lot of overhead for a simple game.