Thinking of making..

[1337_brad]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Tony]

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]

to person... you do know what sports fantasy is... right?

sighs...

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]

Isn't it an all text game?

[basketball4ever]

cycro1234 wrote:

Isn't it an all text game?

basically... unless you want to add in pictures of players?

but its all text,and buttons.

[cycro1234]

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]

cycro1234 wrote:

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]

Then maybe he can cut the database part out.

[basketball4ever]

cycro1234 wrote:

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]

Then he can use a better language to make his game, a language that supports database linking.

[basketball4ever]

and thus explaining this comment:

Quote:

Turing may be simpler than C++, but in that simplicity you loose...umm...several orders of magnitude what you gain.

[cycro1234]

After many hours of deliberation, fighting, and arguing, the council has decided:

1337_brad, use another language.