Build the MVP

[paulovbettio]

Create a Minimum Viable Product that can be used to experiment and test the Conduits to see if the current concepts makes sense for building game mechanics and interactions.

Concept arts:

[caysevdam]

We can make conduits a Scriptable Language and a Visual Coding stuff, my idea is conduits to share ASTs between Scripting Language and Visual Scripting,by that some people who would like to write code will write code eventually and people who likes to do stuff visually will do it that way.

my idea for Conduit scripting is:
there are variables,functions,classes

built in types:
num (Number)
string
bool
function
model (lua like tables)

model is basically an array but with more features it lets you create variables and functions inside the array

example:

idk = { name = "arda", function say_name() then print("arda") end, "array index" }
the index 0 here is a variable index 1 is a function and index 2 is "array index"

i got inspired for this idea from my language :D

functions and classes will be added to memory enviroment before evaluation allowing users to call a function or use a class before declaring it.

some examples

other than that conduits featuring these and OOP will be cool i think, for visual scripting we could expose built in functions as blocks i think. if we have a function like get_player_count(); we can expose it as a Get Player Count block that will only connect to another block that accepts either a number or an object (since that block returns us a number, and every type is compatible with object)
tbh this text can be a mess but what im saying is mix both of scripted language and visual scripting ideas together. its best way to enchance the creators creativity, im not a fan of using 3d blocks like kogama since it limits a lot of things. and i think conduits should be responsible for controlling server side things, like it being able to note a specific player and then track that players action and idk give that player extra hp on some condition or kill it on some condition. lastly the scripting thing makes modularity easy imo.

[paulovbettio]

We can make conduits a Scriptable Language and a Visual Coding stuff

I agree that we should have a text language at some point, and we will probably use Lua due to its broad adoption by other games.

However, our main focus now is to have a very easy and quick to learn way of making logic in games, specially in Blokoto.

I have made an issue to track and discuss the text version here: #4