Can I develop in code instead of visual programming?

rishavs · January 25, 2016, 9:39am

Hi

I just found your engine.
featurewise, it seems solid and I would love to work with it.

I was wondering if I can develop games in pure code instead of using the visual programming?

That aid is more of a problem for me and I would hope that i can do without it.

regards
Rishav

victor · January 25, 2016, 9:53am

It’s not really developped to be done that way, but you can still use C++ in your game (for native game) or JS (for HTML5 games). There’s a special type of event that allows you to enter code.

The doc is here :

http://4ian.github.io/GD-Documentation/GDCpp%20Documentation/index.html → For native C++ games
http://4ian.github.io/GD-Documentation/GDJS%20Runtime%20Documentation/ → For HTML5 games
http://4ian.github.io/GD-Documentation/GDCore%20Documentation/index.html → Some of the classes in this doc are also used in the native C++ games (class in gd namespace)

Darkhog · January 26, 2016, 12:25pm

Ideally, some intermediate scripting language should be added for those who don’t want to use either c++ or JS, for example Lua. There are C/C++ Lua bindings and there is Lua.js for integrating Lua code into HTML5 software.