----------------------------------- 1337_brad Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:13 pm Thinking of making.. ----------------------------------- Thinking of making a fantasy sports game with turing, I would make it in C++ but turing is just so simple :p. I plan on having it connect to a database (which will be daily updated) and reading all the stats and such... Well before I do all the work on this, anybody think it would be a good idea? :p ----------------------------------- Delos Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:40 pm ----------------------------------- Now here's the thing... Is it: - a good idea fo' shizzle dawg! - a feasible idea I wish thee the best of luck - a well planned idea No - a well backed idea Turing may be simpler than C++, but in that simplicity you loose...umm...several orders of magnitude what you gain. But, have fun w/ it anyhow... ----------------------------------- person Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:59 am ----------------------------------- if its a sport game wich involves a lot of characters moving a the same time...well...good luck animating!! cuz it'll take u a pretty long time ----------------------------------- cycro1234 Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:22 am ----------------------------------- I hear that Turing's net commands rnt the best, so good luck wit that. If ur going ta make a sports game, make it soccer :D ----------------------------------- Tony Fri Jan 28, 2005 12:27 pm ----------------------------------- the thing with Turing is that it can't connect to a "database". You'll end up connecting to a textfile and parsing it for information. The real problems arise when that datafile gets to be large with a number of users trying to connect to and work with simuntaniously. unrealibility of net commands just adds to the problem. personally I would go with a web friendly language, such as Java. Better yet Ruby or PHP ----------------------------------- basketball4ever Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:50 pm ----------------------------------- to person... you do know what sports fantasy is... right? sighs... :roll: go to http://www.nba.com/fantasy_games/rookies2004/login.jsp if you were to make a sports game x_X i highly doubt anyone would wanna consider turing... too much animation. ----------------------------------- cycro1234 Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:59 pm ----------------------------------- Isn't it an all text game? ----------------------------------- basketball4ever Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:07 pm ----------------------------------- Isn't it an all text game? basically... unless you want to add in pictures of players? but its all text,and buttons. ----------------------------------- cycro1234 Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:09 pm ----------------------------------- So what's wrong with Turing? Outputing text is realy easy in Turing, unlike Java or c++. Just use a lot of if statements. ----------------------------------- basketball4ever Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:14 pm ----------------------------------- So what's wrong with Turing? Outputing text is realy easy in Turing, unlike Java or c++. Just use a lot of if statements. i'm guessing all the if statements and processing thats done. Since he wants it loaded from a database... (which i dont think can be done) turing might not be a good idea because of the limited memory turing has... ----------------------------------- cycro1234 Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:29 pm ----------------------------------- Then maybe he can cut the database part out. ----------------------------------- basketball4ever Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:53 pm ----------------------------------- Then maybe he can cut the database part out. then he can't play the game... like make it.. .cos like its a game used with data ----------------------------------- cycro1234 Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:05 pm ----------------------------------- Then he can use a better language to make his game, a language that supports database linking. ----------------------------------- basketball4ever Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:18 pm ----------------------------------- and thus explaining this comment: Turing may be simpler than C++, but in that simplicity you loose...umm...several orders of magnitude what you gain. ----------------------------------- cycro1234 Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:25 pm ----------------------------------- After many hours of deliberation, fighting, and arguing, the council has decided: 1337_brad, use another language. ----------------------------------- 1337_brad Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:29 am But... thats no fun :P ----------------------------------- I already made one in Java, I just thought it would be sexy fun to fux0r around with turing =(. I have a test version, it works, and the net controls seem to work pretty fast, and the text file it reads from is like 10,000 lines, take about ... I don't know, not that long to sort through with recursion