Re: [Pybem-developers] boojum

[Anthony B. <ab...@ii...>]

At 6:24 PM +0800 17/6/02, Adrian Smith wrote:
>I think supporting Legends as a second game would be a good test,
>because it has a lot of feature richness but is limited by how it
>is hardcoded. A more flexible Legends would be amazing.
>One thing that it does do fairly well is separate the engine from
>the game (module).
>
>Another game you might want to have a look at is Eldritch,
>which Mark Thomas wrote after playing Atlantis, as basically a
>better Atlantis. I think he has succeeded in many ways, though it
>is more complex and basically a headache keeping track of all your
>stuff (to train a knight you need to have heroes with a variety of
>skills - sword, riding, manoever, armor, shield; plus magic to
>enchant up your knights; then to make the gear you need to gather
>iron, coal, make steel, hides -> leather, hors -> warhorse,
>oak -> make lance, make armour, make sword, make shield, make ...).

Yeah, all this will be (relatively) trivial to do if we can get 
items/skills working the way I'd like. To do that, we need two 
things: coding for the items,  and a general-purpose parser (for the 
config files). Once we've got those, it's probably going to be a case 
of adding lines to the config file:

skill sword synonyms swor effect +lvl combat requires item sword
item sword effect +2 combat requires skill sword

or

skill knight synonyms knig effect +lvl combat effect +lvl upkeep 
requires skill sword requires skill riding requires skill shield 
requires skill heraldry requires item sword requires item horse 
requires item plate_armour requires item shield

If you were after a general case, you could have something like:

skill combat effect +lvl combat requires item weapon
item sword synonyms swor type weapon effect +2 combat requires skill combat
item axe synonyms ax type weapon, tool effect +1 combat, +1 lumb, +1 weap
etc.

For readability, we could probably just read lines until we get to 
the next item/skill, and do the same for synonyms, effects and 
requirements. So, you could rephrase the knight skill as:

skill knight
synonyms knig
effect +lvl combat
        +lvl upkeep
requires skills sword riding shield  heraldry
          items sword horse plate_armour shield

That looks a bit more readable ;)

>I like what you say about RAD Python, it's great that you can throw
>something together to flesh out the design, then keep refactoring it
>continuously.

Yeah, though I really need to do more unit tests, as I found out 
after the last couple of commits ;)

Ant
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