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Started by hawkeye_de June 09, 2014 05:54 PM

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hawkeye_de

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June 09, 2014 05:54 PM

I'm currently developing a roguelike with monogame/C# and have the idea to use IronPython as the language to control the low-level behavior of all artificats (NPCs, items...) in the game.

So that would mean that with xml data files the stuff is heavily moddable and could also speed up my core development.

I'm unsure if this would be a wise decision since I have not found how cross-platform compliant the usage of IronPython is. I've seen various examples that it works on Windows but what is with other OS?

The alternative, which I see is to use C# as a built in scripting languge...the drawback is it is more verbose.

Any comments/suggestions?

Thanks.

jdhardy

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June 10, 2014 07:39 AM

If you're using it as a scripting system internal to your game, then it will run on just fine on any desktop OS. If the scripts need to interact with the OS (opening files, etc.) then there are a few issues on non-Windows systems, but nothing major.

Non-desktop OSes (iOS, Android, WinPhone, Win8) are not yet supported. Getting the core to work on them wouldn't be that hard (except iOS, which doesn't allow runtime code generation), it just takes time.