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Completely new game genre possible?

by Brett "Shabadoo" Gillick · in Torque Game Engine · 09/28/2001 (5:24 am) · 3 replies

Howdy folks,

This is probably a really noob question but i'll ask it anyway,

Can you create a completely new genre of game, for example a driving game, just using scripts? or would it require actually changing the engine source code?

Thanks

Brett
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Paul Robertson
#1
09/28/2001 (5:24 am)
Short Answer: Yes.

Long Answer: The vehicular physics code is part of the engine out of the box, so through scripting it wouldn't be too hard to "whip out" a mod that centered around racing. However........ I often hear how someone at Dynamix screwed up the code as it applies to wheeled vehicles (which explains why Tribes2 only has one wheeled vehicle and why it's control feels... "hinky"). As time goes on that mess will probably get cleaned up though.

Torque Owner Tim Gift
#2
09/29/2001 (7:40 am)
Yes, you could easily create a whole new game genre just using the scripts. If your doing a driving game, and are not happy with the existing physics, then you'd have to jump into the code, but otherwise, it's scripting all the way. Well... may not 100% of the way, the choice of hud controls is a little limited right now, so you may have to add your own hud elements... but if you don't need much of a hud, your there :)

Torque Owner Brett "Shabadoo" Gillick
#3
09/29/2001 (5:37 pm)
Thanks for the replies, i was just thinking that it would be easier for my first tinkering with the engine to do something with scripts than jumping into the source

Brett