What is Cryon ?

[jice]

First of all, Cryon is a free 3D space simulation. It is intended to have thrilling space fights, immersive world simulation (economy, policy, ...) and a great background story which focuses on characters.
You understood this is a long term project

On the other hand, Cryon is a rapid game development language. The cryon executable reads .cs files and compile and execute them at runtime. This allows to do very quickly a 3D game, focusing on the gameplay and IA instead of DirectX technical tricks.

Most commercial languages of this type are based on the Basic language and are only suitable to prototypes or small games.
On the other hand, lots ot current games focus on technology instead of content (great graphics but poor gameplay or IA).
Cryon is an object oriented language trying to get the best of C++, JAVA and C#. It is far from being mature, but it exists and it is already possible to do things with it! It's very long term goal is to provide everything needed to create state of the art games (2d, 3d, sound, UI, physics) with intuitive and easy to use classes.
The rendering engine is based on DirectX effects (.fx) files, which means that the whole rendering process is scripted, so that you can upgrade the graphics of a Cryon game by changing the .fx files and restarting it !

If you're interrested in the Cryon language, you can always download the latest version from cryon.game.free.fr and take a look at the .cs files in the script subdirectory.

Congratulations if you read up to there We hope you'll enjoy this game.

[Anonymous]

The scripting language looks very promising, but I have a couple of questions:

1) How is the type-safety done. dynamic or static?

2) Where can i download the source for the language?

Thx.

[jice]

Hi,

Thanks for your interest in Cryon.

Anonymous said:

1) How is the type-safety done. dynamic or static?

The language is strongly typed. However, the use of the generic type 'object' can lead to situations where dynamic type checks are necessary.
Example :

This code will pass the compiler type check because CProperties class works with objects :

CProperties props();
props.set("myIntValue",5);
float f=props.get("myIntValue");

However, the f affectation will raise a runtime type-check error because an int value cannot be assigned to a float object.

Anonymous said:

2) Where can i download the source for the language?

For now, the scripting engine source is not open.

[Anonymous]

Okey, great.. thx.

Hope you'll open the source some day under a bsd or lgpl like license