Re: [projectx] Scripting

[Ben C. <cro...@ne...>]

Harley (and everyone else),

While I agree that it may be boring, it is *essential* to our game.
Writing our own script engine, while cool, is basically out of the
question, since there's no way we'd get that done in the time we have.  We
want to have a release version of Project X by the end of the school year,
no later.  Lua is fast (which I doubt we'd be able to do as well), it's
been used in real commercial games (MDK2, Baldur's Gate, Grim Fandango),
it's had a few years to mature, and so I think it's the prime candidate.
Note that I'm not precluding other possibilities -- if someone finds an
existing script engine that does what we need it to, I'm completely open
to that.  But at the moment Lua looks like the best option.  So we'll have
to sweat it out a little and figure it out, however mundane it may seem.
I'll check out the UOX thing, though.

Later,
Ben

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On 10 Feb 2000 ak...@me... wrote:

>     Ben,
>          I have been looking over that tutorial, and it is not
> something you want to sit and stare at for more than five mins, I keep
> falling asleep.  I do have one sugjestion.  A Client-Server game I
> have been looking at for a while now, called UOX.  They made their own
> scripting.  and it would seem a lot easier to design something of our
> own to make it easier for the public to script Project X.  As I said
> before Lua is not something everyone knows.  Ben take a look at UOX's
> scripting.  www.uoxdev.com. Thanks
> 
> Harley
> 
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