How good is Hollywood for program tactical type games where you would have to track various statistics with multiple players. From reading the website the graphics movement and manipulation is handled easily.

Thanks for the input.

Matt

Hollywood is surely a great language.
As long as you dont need to handle collisions.
The second thing that is a little bit different
to other languages is its one-instruction per commandline.

You cant say a = 2*b+3, in Hollywood this is written like this
a = mul(2,b)
a = add(a,3)

Hollywood takes full advantage of MorphOS speed. You
can get easily high fps for an 800x600 window with lots of
tiles.

I really love it !

Thanks for the great feedback. Can you also push/pop stacks or database tables? I noticed on their website it can read files but, I wasn't sure what the file contents could be dumped into.

Could I call Hollywood a true development enviroment? Akin to say Basic or Pascal?

I'm glad to see that you can use MOS to such a degree, seems like you can save a lot of development time.


Thanks again for the help!

Matt

Hollywood is a interpreted language. You can run the
script by passing it to the interpreter or compile
it to have the interpreter and the data in an exe.

The script is a normal textfile. So its up to you
what environment you use for development.
Hollywood has no inbuild editor or sth.

For databases and stacks, I think it's safe to say
thats not included. You would have to make your
own data-management. Hollywood knows different types
of variables. Float,Long and String. You can have an
array for each of them. So if you read a file line
by line you can put each line into an array of strings.
If the variable is called lines it would be used like
in other languages lines[0],lines[1] etc