OT: I have started making a few games...

Gandalf Parker · #1 November 4th, 2004, 01:20 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:

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Gandalf Parker said:
Most of the "python" games shifted to Delphi for major releases. (dont I remember early SE along those lines?)

SE started out with Visual Basic before moving on to Delphi.

Ahhh an excellent line of progression. It also goes far toward explaining why SEIV ended up being the kindof game it is and the popularity it has.

Aiken · #2 November 4th, 2004, 05:34 PM

Python is a very good choice for making game draft, because you can write quite complex code very fast. But you'll end up with a very slow game, because Python is a scripting language (it's not compiled to bytecode). So you'll want to rewrite code which is critical for perfomance in C/C++/Delphi (definetely not Java

) to produce fast bytecode.
Python is a great choice for built-in scripting language. Civ IV will use it, and it seems it'll kick se4's (and probably se5's) *** in terms of modability.
So use it for small lightweight projects, not big and resource-consuming ones. Use it to write game draft or to embed it for scripting purposes.