Re: Event based system

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg <madsdyd@challenge.dk>]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Miguel A. Osorio wrote:

> 
> 	I'd like to know more about how to build a event driven game engine, so
> if anyone could spare a resource, it would help a lot - I haven't had
> much success finding good ones on my own.

Could you elaborate a bit on this? 

> 	One other thing... I was wondering if it is possible to build a game
> engine which is event driven and make this scheme work transparently
> with networking, like, the programming interface for sending a message
> to a local object is the same as for sending messages across the
> network.

There are some good articles in "Game Programming Gems" that might suit 
you, how to treat time as an event and so on - also some stuff on network 
programming.

Mads

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