Re: a general question about commands... From: m93plo@mirach.tdb.uu.se (Patrik Loegdahl) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 20:38:53 +0000 THOMPSON BENJAMIN RHINELANDER (thompson@spot.Colorado.EDU) wrote: : Would people be willing to play a game in which units were : programmed in this way? For example, imagine programming a trading : caravan to "go randomly from city to city until you find some place : that sells copper below this price, then buy all you can and come back : here." This could be a very interesting game. What I would like is a quite simple but not boring strategy game with some programming elements in it. I can imagine lots of things to be 'programmable', consider these esamples: (I really don't know why I think in terms of space/conqest games all the time, I know that there are other PBeM's available) Simple battleships that go about and shoot at everything that moves Colonization ships that tries to find uninhabited planets and colonize them. 'Intelligent' robots that can act like an ally or an assisting manager, taking control of boring or difficult tasks. Lots of other things could be mentioned but I think that the most important thing is to make it easy to understand, yet powerful enough to accomplish almost anything. : Most of the people who read this group are probably at least : competent programmers, so they will recognize the trade-off. How : much work are people willing to do for the sake of flexibility in the : games they play? Is a game-specific code preferrable to pseudo-C? I think you should go for a game-specific language. : If I coded up something like this, would people be willing : to help test it? I'd love to play test, and if you need any help whatsoever in creating a game like this I'd be more than happy to assist you. I'm not a very experienced programmer but surely there are other things than just programming that need to be done. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrik Loegdahl | | "Time is a one way street... | except in the Twilight Zone" email:m93plo@student.tdb.uu.se | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Up