[Outdated concept] NPC-Script for NPC programming

[Anonymous]

Hello everybody.
I have just ended my work with the specification of a new declarative script language, which allows the programming of any NPC algorithms, and gives the engine more freedom!

Get example language specification:
Download ODT
Download PDF
Simple examples of script

Later we will try to implement the interpreter of this language with a debugger for testing scripts without full game/level test starts

EDIT: Forgot to note that this concept has been canceled for future production, but kept for historical purposes. The Lua language is more suitable than this.

[Veudekato]

you can edit *.npcs scripts with notepad.

[Alucard]

I have read the example scripts and found a bug/error in Boom Boom one. At the beginning of the script you set NPC`s HP to 10 and damage dealt by being stomped is set to 3. This would cause "insert playable character here" to be required to stomp this mini-boss 4 times, instead of 3, like in most other games (including original SMBX).

[Wohlstand]

I have read the example scripts and found a bug/error in Boom Boom one. At the beginning of the script you set NPC`s HP to 10 and damage dealt by being stomped is set to 3. This would cause "insert playable character here" to be required to stomp this mini-boss 4 times, instead of 3, like in most other games (including original SMBX).

Oh... My mistake: I set his health by the number of fireballs shoots needed to kill him (I counted 10, but I have to think, but I am going to recount it with "NoMoving" mode, or I will allow decimals to set the health values (10.0 or 10.00) )

Added after 3 hours 56 minutes:
Alucard, I did a test: Boom-boom's health is 9hp: you need to use 9 fireballs/hammers in order to kill him, and one stomp could hurt his health by 3 hp.
I updated the examples archive with the corrected values.