Making a game... not an engine...

yodaman · 2003-05-12T17:12:20

Hiya! Well, Im currently developing a general 3D RTS engine that I can use as a base for making other games, sorta in a Genesis 3D type fashion. The engine is or will be fully scripted for AI/UI/HUD/ the console/triggers/events, etc. Anyway, with that in mind, I was wondering how and what exactly I would have to do to make an actual game using the engine... Heres what I figure you would or may need to do to customize a game using the engine: 1) In the editor, make a new game project. 2) choose either skeleton hud,AI,menu, etc layout scripts or choose from a list of defaults. 3) setup the model, texture, terrain, etc directors to start making levels 4) make all level with a "world script" which defines when the level is or has been completed. 5) In the Game Editor tool, you would choose with levels come first, wich are contected, etc. 6) use visual tools for editing HUD, menus, etc, you would aslo asign functions to the buttons and such (start game, would start the first level in the list, edit charactor may bring you to another menu where you can change your name, model etc) 7) and you can always at any point start the engine in default mode (unless you already have the hud, menu etc scripts done) to test your level and scripts. etc... Since I am making the engine nearly completely script dependent it will really be convenient for making new games! having to write a new game using pointers to the entity class, writing the winmain function, and all the other functions that would be needed to handle the rest of the engine every time I make a new game or making non coders have to do this, seems just stupid, why do it! simply edit the splash screen, use the menu tools to script the UI and HUD etc would be a lot more cooler then having to include the engine in a new project every time you want to make a new game, not only that, but that would be defeating the purpose of making the engine use scripts and such ( not every one has a cpp compiler!) Hmm, I quess I dont have any real point, other then to ask the people who have written an engine if this would be the best route to take for an engine thats designed for others(newbies) to make there own games and or as a base for new games? and also, if I should make everything so script dependent or hard code some more stuff(note* compiled scripts!) ~yodaman ps. I will be using Lua (the scripting language) by the way, because lua rulz! [edited by - yodaman on May 10, 2003 1:45:41 AM]

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Started by yodaman May 10, 2003 12:37 AM

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May 12, 2003 01:50 PM

And I do have a game in mind... Ill talk about that later,
well.. What I want in it is the ability to roam the world and
be non linear in play. I want to have it be prinmarly terrains
but with building structures and caves... it will have rope
bridges that will sway in the breeze.. I have alot of plans for the game and ifnact thats why I wanted to make the engine in the first place was to make this game, but then I decided I wanted it to use scripts and then I decided that In would like to make it open source, from there on it evolved to my current plans
but still, I am making it based off of the game idea i have.

Ok must go for now, thanx for your all's post.

~yodaman

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Im still adding to it and I havent got much done yet but im time it will have a lot more.

[edited by - yodaman on May 12, 2003 6:12:20 PM]

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