World: r3wp

using timers we can analyse the input events and trigger our own 
filtered events... but that is not very nice

(nice as in fun to do)

although it would work.

Probably, the best thing is to write a C library to provide the bse, 
then write the game in Rebol.

bse = base

yeah, just using a vast amount of stubs.

hmm, we could also wrap SDL, no?

that is the whole platform for multimedia - surely not the best one, 
but universal ... but then - is it rebol? :-) There would be Core 
underneath and no View ...

is the exchange of GFX from img datatype to dll struct! pretty fast? 
can we switch pointers? or does all of that ram have to be copied 
all the time?

some players where not that shocked by the framerate..

Cyphre could answer that. I invited him on ICQ to join this group 
...

If I understand the situation correctly, Cyphre is in charge of programming 
some elements of new View ....

wishlist2: background music, mp3

hmm, when I look into R3 diagram - there are various modules mentioned, 
but no sound :-) the best sound system probably is fmod, but this 
one is commercial. They have fmod mini IIRC, which could be good 
fit for Rebol, but investors would have to buy a license for RT ....

hum actually Cyphre's defender game is pretty cool !

where?

hum, I might have mixed up the name... on his rebsite  its called 
planet defense...

ah, you go  through reb.

nobody wants to try to walk around in my game?^^

your cube pushing game is A LOT of fun.

what is the name again... I always forget.

cube was not me

dockimbel?

i am talking about my networked memory killer

i did  a mahjong once, but  forgot  where it is

Ha! Planet Defense is fun! Never played that before. :-)

HIGHLY ADICTIVE.. do not start if you are at work !!   :-D

With a little library, many of the arcade grames from the 80'ies 
will be easy to do in REBOL.

To be played on mobile phones.

how expensive is online-playing with phones?

too expensive like with all other phone related services  ;-)

can it connect to wlans?^^

Not fair of me to say, that it'll be easy to do games. What I meant 
was, that it will be easier now with REBOL than back then.

hehe.

volker... your game seems interesting, but i don't speak german ;)

it has a  chat, meet  me and  i translate^^

But mainly  it shows  that  rebol can do some kind of adventure-graphic 
 and fast enough networking.

if there is interest, it needs a rewrite (homegrown spagetti), if 
someone is interest to team up. Alone its to boring^^

I've started on a hex-grid generator. Handles grain, background image, 
terrain and grid size so far.

i  use positions and an immage for background-collision. less performant 
than grids but the map can be a big image without much work.

Just a quick rebirth of the R-Box2 script:

make-dir %rbox2/ change-dir %rbox2/ do http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rbox2/r-box2_latest.r

maybe I could come back and finish a multiplayer version one day:-)

And maybe I should finally solve the level 45 :/

ok... so you're the author... sorry, I mixed you up with Volker... 
he was trying to understand what I was talking about.

hehe

I always wanted to create a RTS game where each god starts off with 
nothing  really ... nothing... all he has are a few basic physic 
rules to work with, a selection of pictures to use for this or that 
(supply your own if you want  :-)  and basically, mix and purchase 
direct statistics and give them names... so that one person might 
create a civilisation which is centered on a religion called lets 
say... "Flying spaghetti monster"  an another which goes with long 
rang ballistics... really it would be a lot of fun, since you'd have 
NO bearing on your opponent's strategies, and since each one really 
is only purchassing raw statistics which are weighted full using 
sampling and probabilistic curves and such... the game would be utterly 
fair.

yet  when you are attacked by a "mighty whoopy cushion warrior" you 
might not know in the begining what they can do  :-)  so you actually 
have to learn to cope with the other's raw tactical might.

add an AI to this and you can get pretty cool long term solo playing 
with an infinite range of playability.

I guess a few oddball capabilities might be to purchase some game 
effects like motion speed, range, terrain type for your world, for 
which being need to have a specific means to cross... like noode 
forests and acid baths  :-)

obviously, the in game beings would be controled by scripts you supply 
as macros which can use inputs to determine their immediate surroundings... 
I guess purchasing evolution would simply be to allow more and more 
actually inputs... and will allow  you to create better agents, since 
they will be able to take more optimised decisions.

things like visible opponent count, then visible damaged opponents, 
visible meaner than myself opponents, etc.