Wish-List for Dominions 4

[Gandalf Parker]

It was originally written in Atari Basic if I remember right. C is a great cubicle language but only the major companies work in cubicles. Much fewer independent games are written in C than people think.

And Im guessing the spaghetti code might be something that Johan is not real interested in another coder commenting on.

Also there is the alpha-group language requirement (swedish?). I remember being in a programming project (a MUD) where one of the main programmers was russian and the only common toungue was C so I know that it can be done but it can be a hassle.

Since Dom4 would have to be rewritten pretty much from scratch to get any major changes, I foretell a future like other games. When Dom is dropped then an open-source project will recreate it with all new code which will be more efficient for having the end goals clearly in view. For not having gone thru the bit-and-piece growth that it has gone thru up to now.

[johan osterman]

Dominions 1,2 and 3 is all in C. CoE was in atari basic before it was converted.

I kind of doubt JK is eager to supervise other people messing around with the code. He isn't usually that keen on explaining stuff, even in person, and the code is not commented or structured to be easy for others to read.

[Gandalf Parker]

Is that Ansi-C (straight C, no + or # on it) since its on linux? Ive done code modifications in it, altho I probably couldnt code anything from scratch in it.

[johan osterman]

Straight C.