From: Andrew Wagner <wagner.andrew@...>
Date: 2010-09-03T19:57:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Event Resolution Framework

This sounds interesting. Have you heard of such a library in another language? 

On Sep 3, 2010, at 12:50 AM, Terry Michaels <spare@frigidcode.com> wrote:

> Has anyone ever pursued creating a library/framework for the abstract
> management of event resolution models?
> 
> I'm coding a game where character actions of all players are planned
> ahead of time, and then these actions are executed all at the same time.
> This, obviously, means that I will need to develop logic to resolve
> event conflicts. For example, character A decides to send a message to
> character B, at the same time that character C decides to shoot
> character A. So my game logic needs to decide which events take
> precedence (does character A get off his message before getting shot?)
> and so forth.
> 
> I was curious if anyone had every worked on some kind of generic event
> management framework that could underlie an actual gaming engine. Anyone
> heard of anything like that?
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