Re: Gaming Engines

From: "Shawn Kirkeby" <shawn.kirkeby@home.com>

Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 02:01:58 +0000

A very interesting idea.

Perhaps a scripting engine for the 'unique' aspects of a module
supplementing the core engine that handles the commonality such as movement
etc.

Just a thought.

Shawn

"MindShift Design" <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com> wrote in message
news:8t4coo$bdc$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> I posted this to the PBMDesign email list on Egroups as well and
> thought I'd post it here to start some discussion (no shortage of
> debaters in here <g>)...
>
> --
>
> After some conversations with our development team and some responses
> in private email and on rec.games.pbm, we're thinking about creating
> a PBM gaming engine that will have gaming plug-in modules (holding
> the game rules). The game engine handles the processing of data
> inbound and outbound (orders and results, as well as interfacing with
> any database that's required). We see this as the way to go forward
> for developing our games. In some ways it's like the scripting system
> that LucasArts and other companies use to create games. It would
> allow us to concentrate on the actual game worlds more and also allow
> other companies/ players to use the engine to make their own games.
> As the engine would handle all the output of results in PDF, HTML,
> txt or print on multiple platforms, it would mean a "write-once,
> deploy oftern" approach to development. We're still working out all
> the details, but I was wondering what this NG thought about this ?
>
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> MindShift Design LLC
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References

Gaming Engines
MindShift Design <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com>
Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Gaming Engines
MindShift Design <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com>
Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000