Hi,
I am still in my learning stages of programming & game design, and had a few questions that i couldnt find answers to while reading the FAQ's & forums. This may be my lack of experience or understanding some of the concepts around Gamestudio, and of course programming in general...but I would appreciate any advise given.
I am trying to develop a sports management game...essentially a database-driven game which uses function formulas to generate, track, and present results. I expect the GUI to be the primary user interaction, and the actual "graphical game" to be "non-interactive"...or possibly "minimally" interactive. I do not "need" fancy graphics, or even 3d for that matter, but based upon the way I'd like to present the "field view"(isometric, but with perspective...i.e. 45 degree view), I assume 3d might be the only choice I have, coupled with some basic 2d sprites perhaps. But if I find that too difficult, I'd settle for 2d top view style.
As of right now, I am still designing the db schema to "try" and encapsulate enough data to make these results a little bit more than just a simple "points tally" per play. I "think"(again...consider the source...me) this should allow me the flexibility to eventually include graphical playouts of these "results"...and the idea of scripting sounds like it works perfectly for me to do this. However, I could not find any info on whether GS would be an appropriate tool for something like this, does this sound reasonable to do?
My next question is...if it sounds like a concept GS would work well with...would I need to develop the entire game in GS...or would I somehow integrate it into my "master" application(the beginnings have been started in VB.Net)?
If it does support everything to be done in GS...can somebody link me to some information on integrating data-driven components into GS? Or, if the answer is vice-versa, link to some information on integrating GS into another app?
Thanks to any who try to help in advance. And by all means, if I've missed something with the Search tool that has been discussed before, a link works well for me too.
Regards,
Steve