On 23/01/2013 6:09 PM, Kristian Lein-Mathisen wrote:
Are you planning on using any established game-engines or libraries?
What will probably become very interesting is where your C++-code ends
and where your Scheme begins.
Hi Kristian,
The game is currently pure C and C++. As for libraries, I currently use
xerces (XML), curses (UI), Google Test, and boost/stl. The game itself
is currently in a playable state - the player can win or lose, there's a
generated world to explore, etc., though it's currently pretty bare.
My plan is to start with reasonably small scope, and use Scheme for the
quest logic. I'd like to have a number of optional side quests beyond
the basic roguelike "dive to the bottom of the dungeon". I could do
this in C++, but I see an opportunity to work in my favourite
programming language, so I'm going to take it. :)
So I have a crazy idea, how about writing all of it in Scheme? So
instead of exposing a function to add a message to the UI, you can
expose functions to draw the UI, and do your game in Scheme. Then as
you move along and things settle, you can port the slow/critical parts
to faster C-code if you need to. Just a thought. There are several eggs
<http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html#graphics> for
graphics available that might suit your drawing needs, like cairo or opengl.
Much too late for that, I'm afraid! The game itself is currently just
under 2 MB of code, resource strings, and configuration details. I'm
quite happy with its current state. I'd love to try Scheme as the main
language for a game, but this project's much too far in for that.
Julian
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