rubyaustralia/rubyconfau-2014-cfp — pull request #67 by markmandel (2013-10-31 09:27:02+00:00)
Title: Writing Games with Entity Systems and JRuby

Entity Systems are a relatively new style of software development that came out of the game industry to avoid some of the common architectural pitfalls of Object Oriented programming when developing games, and attempt to provide a much cleaner separation between aspects such as rendering, physics, AI and other parts of a game's ecosystem.

In this talk we'll live code a simple game with JRuby and libGDX and provide it with some interactivity and physics so you can get a feel for how Entity Systems work, and inspire you with your own game architectures. Not only limited to games, this talk should also make you think about how you design other types of software that have a view layer powered by a highly dynamic data set.