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We already knew that. Everything is coded as a minion.

It's an geeky in-joke from the old Warcraft3 DotA and early LoL days. Please don't murder me.

So … Unreal? ;)

I think it is natural that every game engine eventually winds up with some sort of god object placed into a recursive, tree-like structure.

You need some abstraction to represent "a thing in the world" and usually a way to say if a thing is subordinate to another thing.

Minon, GameObject, Actor, Item, etc., are all solving the same problem.

> I think it is natural that every game engine eventually winds up with some sort of god object placed into a recursive, tree-like structure.

I experienced less distress when discovering Santa wasn't real.

reduce the signal to noise ratio of your cache reads with this one weird trick! data-oriented game engine developers hate him!

more seriously, resources explaining why and how not to do this:

CppCon 2014 Mike Acton Data Oriented Design and C++ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92KFSD3ObrY

Handmade Seattle 2021 Andrew Kelley A Practical Guide to Applying Data-Oriented Design https://media.handmade-seattle.com/practical-data-oriented-d...