Re: Programming Languages

From: ericsum@aol.com (EricSum)

Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 00:00:00 +0000

My 2 cents,

I have been working for the past month desining a PBEM and I have been using
Visual Basic 5.0. Before embarking on designing and programming a PBM/PBEM of
any sort that is going to be computer moderated, I strongly suggest that you
use a language that has strong database support built into it. I was looking
over the code for Atlantis 1.0 and thinking how cumbersome the games code is
due to the fact that it uses flat files and huge lists of predefined constants.

VB is definitely not the only language with great database support, so the
choice of language is still pretty broad. But before you start programming make
sure that you have a full understanding of database design and use. IMO, the
game is only as good as the database and programmer behind it. Manipulating
objects in the game universe can be an extremely tedious task if your database
design is sloppy. The simple, but common, act of a player dropping an item onto
the ground can be a nightmare if you have no good way of telling your database
"Okay, the Sword Of Destiny is now laying on the ground in the Field Of
Paramor, it is no longer in Farloks backpack."

I know most of you know this already, but I thought I would post it for all of
the people who come here with the desire to program their own game, but are
wondering what is needed.

- Eric

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http://www.geocities.com/~ericsum/ham/index.html

References

Re: Programming Languages
Phil Shulkind <phil@phildee.demon.co.uk>
Sun, 08 Feb 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Programming Languages
Phil Shulkind <phil@phildee.demon.co.uk>
Sun, 08 Feb 1998 00:00:00 +0000