underscore discovery

Taking on a challenge (while waiting for certain things to be finalised on shadowracer, and other things taking my time), I decided to challenge myself to some code architecture design. Like designing systems that are clean, simple and efficient while being powerful enough to maintain their stability and usability on a much larger scale. Things like networking, user interface design, game core runtime designs etc.

V8
One of those steps was getting the v8 javascript engine running nice and smoothly behind the scenes of the core code base, which was incredibly easy thanks to their simple approach. Using a modified base of CProxyV8, i have managed to expose entire classes to script on a whim via some really minimal preprocessing of class files and macros, which will be polished and released here as soon as its a viable tool.

Multi User Interface design
Allowing the switching of user interface engines at any time (even runtime) was another challenge i took on, which has also proven quite fruitful so far. While using the PhoenixCore engine for rendering at the moment and hooking up some gameswf flash UI code to that is quite powerful , i still have the flexibility to change those at any time with minimal wrapping of gameplay code.

Interesting Gameplay
While the engine may be all cool and dynamic it doesn’t serve any good without a nice fun game to play. I wont be speaking on what exactly i have gotten into making with some friends but i can post some mockups that have come up so far.

Coming sometime

Coming sometime