Aug 19, 2026, 2:56 PMCame up with a good way to convert scene scripts to code for You Have Died. Gonna treat every dialogue box or choice box or whatever as its own "scene" as far as the engine is concerned and that way I can tick over to the next part of the script when the current "scene" ends
Aug 19, 2026, 4:28 PMFor a second there I considered parsing the scripts, turning it into some kind of bytecode or AST in binary, then reading it in in the engine and running an interpreter on it
Then I came to my senses and decided to go from parsing to emitting C code I can just compile, cutting out the middle two steps
@eniko Emitting C source code: It feels like a hack, but it's just too damn practical.
Aug 19, 2026, 4:30 PM@eniko but how will your fleet of level designers write scripts now? Oh wait..
Aug 19, 2026, 4:31 PM@sol_hsa oh the scripts are for dialogue sequences not levels. But other people can write scripts and then I compile them into the game