Pros and Cons of Implementing a Scripting Language

  • MiXih
    17th Oct 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    pilojo
    fail
  • devast8a
    17th Oct 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    pilojo
    Flash >.> Are you serious.
  • pilojo
    17th Oct 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    devast8a
    My friend made something like this and it runs quite well. The graphics are great.
  • devast8a
    17th Oct 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    pilojo
    How on earth do you expect us to use the abomination that is Flash with Powder Toy?
  • bbqroast
    17th Oct 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Hmm... Like the idea.
    I would like to use LUA seeing as I play other games (a 3D one) where I can script in LUA.
    How about we make to versions:
    Official (No LUA) Devolpment (Source Code + LUA).
    Hey and what would be really cool would be if you set up a "add on" system- There would be a config file with all the add ons (Relative paths of course) Like this (true: Run add on, False: Ignore this):

    betterglowadd.lua,true;
    awesomeneons.lua,true;
    nograv.lua,false;
    liquidgoo.lua,true;
    liquidbrickandcoal.lua,false;

    The games i play you just use the built in editor so I don't knwo abotu extensions/ compilation: If it needs to be compiled just point users to a LUA compiler and have them pre compile it.
  • bbqroast
    17th Oct 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    FLASH!?! What are you crazy- Adobe Flash isn't stable on some OS's. It costs to much for us people to edit in scripts (Are you saying we should all go and illegally download it- count me out). It would be to complex. And of course we have it running fine in C++ or C does it really matter.
  • reagan
    17th Oct 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    [url=http://www.piettes.com/fallingsandgame/download.html][/url]
  • Cr15py
    17th Oct 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Using flash would be stupid! It would do all of the following:
    1)Increase CPU, and power usage(it's already bad enough)
    2)Cause instabilities on different computers/OSes
    3)Expose users to the dangers of flash(I swear to god I hear about another vuln every week)
    4)Many other things I can't think of right now(the caffeine is wearing off =p)
  • Neospector
    17th Oct 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Not Flash. LUA would be the best form. LUA is used on hundreds of sites with customizable code. It's also fairly simple to learn.
  • Cr15py
    17th Oct 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    I know, but some kid suggested flash, I had to join the shooting party!
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