[gameprogrammer] Re: Dark Basic

On Monday 26 November 2007, ®£$ǖ"v@M$Ħ ¢© $........... wrote:
> Which do you guys consider a better engine for a FPS DarkBasic or
> Blitz3D?

Lua! ;-)

Only half kidding, actually. It's a much nicer language than any BASIC 
dialect IMO, and it's small, light, fast (one of the fastest VMs 
around, and there is a JIT version as well), Free/Open Source, 
portable (runs on *anything*, basically - cell phones included), and 
has been used for scripting in quite a few commercial games. There is 
at least one 3D action game (an FPS IIRC) that is implemented 
entirely in Lua over an essentially "raw" 3D engine.

(Disclaimer: My personal experience with Lua is limited to some 
testing and reading of the implementation source code as part of my 
research for my real time scripting language EEL.)


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