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[Snarwin]

I seriously doubt that a web interface would be able to handle the engine Gleeok seems to have in mind.

[Cameron]

I seriously doubt that a web interface would be able to handle the engine Gleeok seems to have in mind.

I was thinking less on the technical side and more on the usefulness (right?) side. Nonetheless you have proved my point.

[Joe123]

If a program's coded in C++ then there isn't any kind of arbitrary method to just 'make it into a browser plugin'

[Master Maniac]

If a program's coded in C++ then there isn't any kind of arbitrary method to just 'make it into a browser plugin'

Make a browser in C++.

I win. XD

[Joe123]

Firefox is written in C++, what difference is that supposed to make exactly?

[Gleeok]

I was thinking less on the technical side.

I believe the technical term is "Flash games suck".

[Cameron]

I believe the technical term is "Flash games suck".

Thanks, that one was bothering me. It was on the tip of my tongue.

[Cameron]

Is this still being worked on or thought about or something? We kinda stopped talking about it and if any new things have happened I would love to hear about it. I'm not trying to yell any anyone to make this thing, but I just want to know were the project status is. Canceled because it was a huge project that was easier said than done?

[Gleeok]

Is this still being worked on or thought about or something? We kinda stopped talking about it and if any new things have happened I would love to hear about it. I'm not trying to yell any anyone to make this thing, but I just want to know were the project status is. Canceled because it was a huge project that was easier said than done?

I don't know, do you want the bad news first? ..OK then.

Eh.. There's just not enough people actively working on it. I don't wan't to say vaporware or anything but if we can't get some people to contribute to the GUI sometime soon then that's where it is heading. To be fair everyone has been really busy lately, so perhaps you can surround this statement with even more question marks, so it might look like this: ???


Good news?

Well the rendering library is over half done, which, even then is more than capable enough for any kind of release. It's also extremely fast as some people have seen. Also regardless of whether or not this gets done I'll be open-sourcing it, so there's that. And!.. the underlying scripting engine is basically done too. I've been testing it by scripting a Tetris game which is almost complete. (In fact I was just playing it!)

In fact the only cool thing (and I mean "only") we have now besides the graphics is the scripting engine. Here's what you can pretty much do with scripts:
-You can have virtually unlimited scripts running every frame. (The number is so high it might as well be infinite) These can also be dynamically added by any active script. For example; script A at some point calls "object.create("SuperDude"); which registers a new instance of your SuperDude class, which in turn initializes more scripts like "SummonMinions" or "MakeItRain" or whatever, you get the idea. It's like unlimited FFCs sorta.

In fact I mentioned a Tetris script so here's a piece (no pun intended) of that. It's just a simple class that contains information on a tetrimino or however that is spelled:

CODE

class Piece
{
    int x;
    int y;
    int type;
    int flip;
    Array<int> data; //dynamic multi-dimensional arrays

    Piece() //constructor
    {
        x = 0;
        y = 0;
        type = 0;
        flip = 0;
        data.resize(4, 4);
    }

    Piece &opAssign( const Piece& in rhs ) //same as  '=' operator
    {
        x = rhs.x;
        y = rhs.y;
        type = rhs.type;
        flip = rhs.flip;
        data = rhs.data;

        return this;
    }
}

So as you can see I don't really know how to answer your question. It's a mixed bag.

[Sheik]

Random useless feedback post:
From what I've read and heared so far, I'm going to love this. Actually, I might already love it a bit.
I could start writing down how much more I like the idea behind this than ZC, but I'd rather not. Anyways, I'm a big fan of this now :3

[Cameron]

I don't know, do you want the bad news first? ..OK then.

Eh.. There's just not enough people actively working on it. I don't wan't to say vaporware or anything but if we can't get some people to contribute to the GUI sometime soon then that's where it is heading. To be fair everyone has been really busy lately, so perhaps you can surround this statement with even more question marks, so it might look like this: ?

Well that sucks. I would love to help, but there's really nothing I can do seeing as I'm just beginning to learn C++. The rest sounds pretty awesome though, keep up the good work! Thanks for sharing what's been going on.

[Bourkification]

Maybe there could be some sort of publicity so that people can see what the project aims to do, and who they can get involved. This would help to draw some people familiar with GUI design to the community, or perhaps even make the people in the community who are familiar with GUI design realise they can help with the project.

[trudatman]

dead?

[Geoffrey]

If this is still alive, I'd suggest making an "event" system similar to the one in RPG maker which would handle warps, npcs, treasure chests, possibly even enemies. You would be able to place one (or more, but that could get complex) per combo.