Added a bit more to the graph and finally started coding some things.
I probably won’t post everything about the graph because it changes so often (which is what I like about designing on a whiteboard!)
The current challenge is writing a typescript code generator script that takes this:
… and turns them into autocomplete-friendly method calls that I can use on game systems, like
actions.spawnPlayer()
which not only executes the code within the definition’s execute, but also appends some replication-specific code in the background and deals with translating SIDs/PIDs that I don’t have to write in the definition’s execute everytime I want to make a new action.
Okay, I think I got most of the transformer script working. I’ll just leave this very simple diagram of my setup here.
Probably the jankiest thing I’ve ever done, and I had some help getting started with ChatGPT and this really neat tool to even begin getting a sense of traversing things: https://ts-ast-viewer.com/
Big thanks to ts-morph!
I also spent some time playing Brickadia’s open demo, and it’s mind boggling how much detail and interactivity that could happen in a multiplayer physics-simulated world. Their technical blogs are a pretty good read.