Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?

From: dwagon@nella5.cc.monash.edu.au (Dougal Scott)

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 05:55:18 +0000

dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:

>sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter):
>>I guess the subject line says it all, really.  A friend and I have gone
...
>>suited to this sort of thing.

>It depends on the game, of course.  If your game is like most of the pbm
>games I've played, I'd strongly recommend an object-oriented language,
>possibly C++.  The nature of these games -- very data-intensive, with a
>great deal of semantic and procedural information associated with the
>'pieces' -- makes them a dream application for object-oriented design
>and implementation.  As a second choice, especially if your game is

I would have to agree totally with this. I originally wrote Celestial Empire
in `C' a number of years ago, and I am now rewritting the whole thing again in
C++. Its very clean to program in, and I know of heaps of bugs in the original
code that would not have occured if I had written in C++ from the start. One
major advantage of C++ is that it forces you to think more in the design stage
rather than just pouring code into the editor.

The design stage is vital in all programs, but especially in PBM games. Don't
think about coding unless you have a good design worked out. Again when I
first did CelEmp, I skimped on the design phase, and have subsequently had to
write lots of code to work around defficiencies in the design.
--
Dougal Scott-Dougal.Scott@fcit.monash.edu.au  Faculty of Computing & Info Tech
I am eager for the pleasures of the flesh more    Monash University, Caulfield
than for salvation, my soul is dead, so I shall            Victoria, AUSTRALIA
look after the flesh. -Carmina Burana

References

Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:14:45 +0000
Re: Programming a PBM game: What language is best?
dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:25:50 +0000