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Programming / DSLs for content creation?

« on: April 26, 2021, 03:15:49 AM »

Hello all!

I'm wondering - when you get around to content development (skills,armour,monsters,etc.) Do you use some kind of DSL or do you require your content be produced in whatever language you're developing in?

So far I've been having content written in the programming language, but I've been toying with the idea of a DSL (perhaps co-opting something like TOML) to speed up content generation and reusability - but I'm not sure if it's really worth the trouble.

Thanks for the input!

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Programming / Re: Order of Execution In Turn Based Roguelikes

« on: April 20, 2021, 05:11:02 PM »

I've been toying with the idea of "moods" (aggressive, calm, searching) for dictating movement order for mobs. The hope is that allowing players to observe different mobs movement once in FOV will help decide how (not) to interact with them.

Outside of FOV I tend to make it random.