Books on Data oriented design pattern / ECS

I chose the 'Entity component system' programming pattern for my diploma thesis, more specifically using it in conjunction with Unity3D, which added this feature recently and now found out that there are very few books (e-books) on this topic.
Did anyone search for the same topic and had any success finding up to date books on this topic?

I did find a book from Richard Fabian: Data-Oriented Design, which was released about a year ago but I am not sure if it's worth buying since ECS wasn't really mentioned.

Any other suggestions for books or good articles on this topic are highly appreciated!

 

You won't find any book about Unity ECS just yet, since the product isn't even close to finished. If you find something, most likely they're lying to you. You can find tutorials though.
And you can find books on the underlying pattern: DoD, but you already mentioned that. Unity ECS is a Unity-related implementation of one specific DoD pattern, the ECS (Entity-Component-System).
Also Jason Gregory's Game Engine Architecture contains info about DoD and Entity-systems in general (no Unity reference, of course).

 

I'm about to leave to run some errands but I managed to find a couple of potential books. If I had more time I could dig up more books on the subject. Just keep in mind you won't find any that are specifically aimed at Unity for the reason that was mentioned by @Lurking-Ninja.

https://www.amazon.com/Engine-Architecture-Third-Jason-Gregory/dp/1138035459
https://www.amazon.com/Game-Programming-Patterns-Robert-Nystrom/dp/0990582906

 

Thank you guys so much! The books don't neccesarily have to be Unity-based, just the programming pattern in general. I will however use Unity to implement a prototype by using it's own implementation of DOTS.

 

Try looking for scholarly articles also, rather than just books. They tend to be more "cutting-edge" and focused as far as research goes.

 

Entity systems are more of a collection of patterns and different implementations often have a different focus. Unity's implementation is more focused on performance. The first versions of ECS weren't performance focused that came later when someone realized ECS fit DOD patterns easily.

Credited as the first implementation known, this was from a gdc talk in 2002
https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/data-driven-game-object-system.pdf

A bit of history:
https://gist.github.com/LearnCocos2D/77f0ced228292676689f

Largest collection of ECS material I know of, although not complete by any means
http://entity-systems.wikidot.com/

 

Data-oriented design: software engineering for limited resources and short schedules by Richard Fabian is one of the best books that I've read so far. I recently released NetDynamics that was built using the best practices described in this book. Run the server executable without any connections and try to kill framerate on it by spawning tens of thousands of entities.

 

Thanks for the tip, just ordered it.

 

I wasn't sure that the book was right for my needs but you convinced me, thanks!

 

This book covers valuable and essential knowledge (such as access patterns) that you need to know before starting to work with any ECS pattern, especially if you are building an application or a framework out of Unity's ecosystem.

 

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