[Fluxus] entities

[Dave Griffiths]

That'll take me some time to get my head around, but I like the look of
that - a lot.

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> Hi Dave,
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> Another possibility is to build on top of the FrTime language.
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> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cooper04frtime.html
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> I still haven't had time to sit down and get everything working, but
> it seems to me that FRP would make a nice paradigm for the kinds of
> things that take place in a live-coding environment. It certainly
> would lift the responsibility of the crank-turning (the engine behind
> the scenes) off your shoulders, and allow you to focus on how to
> instead leverage fluxus in a behavioral/reactive environment.
>
> Food for thought, anyway.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
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> On 9/25/07, Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As usual, I only come up with new ideas while being way too busy working
>> on 4 or 5 others, but I think a fluxus thing to look at soon (no time
>> promises :) might be some layers on top of the existing graphics
>> commands
>> to make some higher level things easier.
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>> So what I'm considering is a possible entity system - which is the start
>> of a more complete game engine. It would comprise a hierarchy of classes
>> (all written in Scheme, using PLT's classes) that would allow you to
>> create objects with behaviours, interacting with a world around them -
>> i.e. a player character, some AI driven characters, pickups (keys etc),
>> static things which have a state - doors, switches etc etc and the
>> terrain
>> which contains it all.
>>
>> This would generalise some of the livecoding games code (particually
>> al-jazari) to make it easier and faster to prototype new games and other
>> game like things. It might also take scheme livecoding in fluxus from
>> moving boxes and points around to more behavioural animation.
>>
>> I've started a wiki page to jot down ideas here:
>> http://www.pawfal.org/index.php?page=FluxusEntities
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> dave
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