Re: [GD-General] Scripting

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Brian Hook wrote:
> A paper by Scott Bilas of GPG on Skrit (their pseudo-scripting
> language) particularly resonates with me:
>
> http://www.drizzle.com/~scottb/ds/skrit.htm
>
> a pretty good overview, and there's some links in there I think to his
> GDC talks where I think he even says all scripting languages suck (or
> something to that effect).

There are also a few chapters on AI Programing Wisdom on scripting languages
that I think are worth a read. Specially interesting are:

"How not to implement a basic scripting language", that describes the wrong
decisions made during the development of NWScript.

"Scripting for undefined circumstances", that describes the language used in
Black&White to describe challenges and cinematic scenes.

The later remembers me to the scripting language used in Ritual's FAKK2.
Scripts were almost a sequence of commands (like quake console commands).
The script interpreter is just a tokenizer, that interprets commands one by
one. Such a simple system is easy to implement, and mixed with an event
system becomes quite powerfull. It allowed you to describe things that
happen concurrently with ease. I expect that a very similar system will be
used in doom3, now that Jim Dose is working at id.


Ignacio Castaño
cas...@ya...


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