Wow, if you can define everything in an editor, can this also generate C code directly?

Then this could even skip the step of using a LUA interpreter...

Look at the positive side of it: these points are easily adjusted with a patch, without need to alter neither gameplay nor story. A fix at zero-cost, therefore likely to happen if enough people voice their opinion about it. Given that the game also runs on consoles, the cost of patching is always q...

The main difference between the two, is that the user doesn't constantly have to think. "Am I an Int, or a Float, or a Double, or a Long Int, or a Byte?" they can just deal with their value as a number, and move on. The programmer might think then: "I hope this was an Int and not a Float". The lang...

There are some Fishtank decorations available.
Or did Victor wanted something different?
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Its cheaper for a company to buy more powerful processing hardware, than employing additional programmers to try and fix performance issues in Java. Java can run quite fast and memory efficient, but thats harder to do than using a standard casual OOP approach and plugging in established (bloated) li...

I stopped my last game (couple of month ago) when on of the fallend empires "awoke", and startet obliterating my worlds. Thats not fun, because it felt just like a spawned in game mechanic. Plus, how can a first time player anticipate that here. The other AI empires at least had to work up to their ...

Does the new fleet mechanic fix the "attack with one huge fleet" problem? Combat got quite boring, as it was always just "buildup a bigger fleet than the other" and then "attack with that one fleet". Also the static defenses (fortresses) did not really scale up with the fleet power, and never presen...

I usually write the same algorithms several times, first in a very hacky and fast way to see if the raw algorithm has the required results then using neat OOP with Objects to pass data around then (and only if there is a performance issue), converting everything to raw datastructures and direct func...

Some people are totally brainwashed by OOP, and can talk the whole day how everything just HAS to be decoupled no matter the context I think that starts to change nowerdays, at least in the game-dev community. (with architectures using an entity component system) When I write code, I keep everythin...

I dont doubt that a controller is very capable for the actual ship steering and combat. That works well for either mouse or controller (just in a different way, a mouse is better when shooting precisely at targets, and a controller is way better for ship-movement, than WASD). The problem is more the...

Im just trying to tease Flatfingers here ;) I want to showcase, that trying to support several input methods cannot (economically) result in the best results for ALL of them. Apart from the many console/PC games, thats also visible in pure flight simulators, wich are designed with a proper Joystick ...

With so many requests for various input methods, I think the best would be to use the lowest common denominator for of them all:
an X-BOX controller based menu, and flight mechanics.
The other input devices could be then somehow mapped to that.

good programmers tend to produce relatively few errors I feel attacked :ghost: I think thats a superstition. The same as "good programmers can type really fast" or "good programmers use a low level editor like vi "... Look at that guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydyztGZnbNs He types slow, uses...

Thats actually another interesting question: will the game have fixed saves, or will the game revolve around respawning at some save location, continuing with a default ship. I actually dont like to have the option to save at any second (in a battle) and then have the game end on death. It just tran...

Just make sure you don't put yourself in that situation. :D That's the way it's usually done. It's been accomplished successfully in many games before. RTS games, for instance, are essentially another genre's implementation of this concept. 4X games are often the same way: everyone is playing on eq...