I’m toying with the idea of learning and actually using a new language – something other than Emacs Lisp or Perl. Common Lisp, Javascript (using Rhino) or Haskell are on my short list. But what for? While playing Squad Leader I wondered how difficult it would be to implement a computer player. But then I thought: Are there no simpler rules? And I remembered the fun I had playing Advance Wars on the Game Boy Advance. One could use some of the numbers from the Advance Wars FAQs on GameFAQs...
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I’ve come up with various game ideas over the years, and even made noises about starting something, but as soon as you get past the fun design big you get hit by a wall of technical difficulties and a lot of work. It’s futile.
What would be neat would be to have some sort of platform that lets you start building the game straight away and seeing results. Perhaps it’s just me, but some sort of instant gratification is necessary to keep me motivated.
– Marco 2008-01-20 13:49 UTC
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Absolutely. That’s why the first and only game I ever developped was a PlayByEmailGame. That way I could use very simple input and output and concentrate on the game engine itself. And that’s what fascinates me the most.
– Alex Schroeder 2008-01-20 21:04 UTC