Lua Scripting?

[Sophia]

Lua is fairly easy to embed, and it would allow a lot of added functionality while making the dungeon designer do most of the work (so as not to be a huge burden to implement!)

Have a look: www.lua.org

[Sophia]

Given all of the talk about DSA-like features in RTC, custom spells, and whatnot, I'm going to give this one a bump!

If it seems like a lot of work, I, for one, would be happy to help, too.

[beowuuf]

Haven't looked at the thing yet, but pushing all the work to the designer sounds a god idea... DSAs and any macros and scripting definitely allow alot of cool twists, even from simple building blocks

[copperman]

After having a look round the Lua site and also at a few of the projects using Lua, I heartily support this request. If implemented well it could allow endless design possibilities including: MOB ambushes, item generating alcoves, ropes that let you climb UP. I use these examples because these are things people have suggested as additions to RTC. Implement Lua and the designer can add these features themselves.

[JCG]

Sophia, if you need a scripting language, you should also consider Tcl/Tk. The language is extremely powerful with all the available extensions (libraries), mature, ported on all main platforms ( Win, Mac, Linux), readily interfaced with C, there is a large and active community around it, and it's free / open source.
It's my preferred solution for developing small/medium graphical applications, when the full-blown capabilities of C/C++ or Java are not necessary. You can develop very rapidly small application with just a few lines of code.

[Sophia]

I tend to prefer the syntax employed by Lua. But that's just me.

If Tcl/Tk is what makes it in, then, I will support that as well!

Any scripting language is going to be better than none.