Bitsquid recently had an interesting 3-part post on the design of the entity system for their game engine: http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/2014/08/building-data-o

Bitsquid recently had an interesting 3-part post on the design of the entity system for their game engine: http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/2014/08/building-data-oriented-entity-system.html http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/2014/08/building-data-oriented-... http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/2014/09/building-data-oriented-entity-system.html http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/2014/09/building-data-oriented-... http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/2014/10/building-data-oriented-entity-system.html http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/2014/10/building-data-oriented-... Data is stored in flat, homogeneous blobs and linked together by integer ids instead of pointers.