Re: Gaming Engines

From: "Johan van Niekerk" <johanvn@spamlesspetech.ac.za>

Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:09:22 +0000

I've also toyed with the idea of an OO based generic gaming engine over the
years. I've never really gotten down to doing any of the coding though.
The way I see it is you'll need a VERY modular approach for it to be truly
generic. As an example: Combat would probably be handled very different in a
sci-fi based game as opposed to the way it is handled in a fantasy game
where magic etc. can play a big role.
Therefor IMHO you should not have a fixed combat module but rather a fixed
interface specification for the combat module and then use the same
interface for different implementations. (or you might have seperate modules
for different genres?) That way you'd actually pick which module to use when
defining a new game.
What I'd like to see is everyone's opinion on which "modules" should exist
in a fully computer moderated game, which are generic, and which should
maybe be genre specific.
A couple I've thought of (not all, just those I can currently think off)
would be:

GENERIC

Mail-handler
pdf/html/whatever report generator (basically a module that would allow some
form of scripting interface and then produce goodlooking reports based on
that ?)
Player data/accounting module
Main program (the one that will run the turns/ and call the others as
required)
skills (assuming magic etc. is not handled as a skill)
Mapping module (not sure about this one)

FANTASY
Magic

SCI FI
???

Anyone care to expand on this ?

Johan

References

Re: Gaming Engines
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Gaming Engines
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Gaming Engines
"MindShift Design" <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com>
Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: Gaming Engines
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Gaming Engines
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Gaming Engines
"MindShift Design" <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com>
Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000