Better CMD language

[Antikore]

Platform Builder should have a better language to make better games, this are the things it should add in the next updates:

• Syntax Coloring
• Stack if and other statements
• Add draw commands and draw command prompts
• Other statements, such as repeat, for etc. (At least those two)
• Variables that can hold text, reals, booleans etc.
• Control ini files, other files etc.
• Add list variables
• Modify current values from objects, such as how many health an specific enemy has etc.

Also, if TingThing is reading this, what was exactly the problem with if inside ifs?

[Gizgord]

yes, these changes are very welcome, if not necessary. I completely understand them and know how they work!

[War]

Platform Builder should have a better language to make better games, this are the things it should add in the next updates:

• Syntax Coloring
• Stack if and other statements
• Add draw commands and draw command prompts
• Other statements, such as repeat, for etc. (At least those two)
• Variables that can hold text, reals, booleans etc.
• Control ini files, other files etc.
• Add list variables
• Modify current values from objects, such as how many health an specific enemy has etc.

Also, if TingThing is reading this, what was exactly the problem with if inside ifs?

I think these should be already in Platform Builder

[Antikore]

True

[CGM]

I want a gml type language...Platform Builder would be, AMAZING!!!

[Antikore]

I want a gml type language...Platform Builder would be, AMAZING!!!

I think TingThing doesn't do it because two main reasons:

• Platform Builder is aimed for people who don't know how to program games very well
• It's too hard for him or too time-expensive

[CGM]

Well, I don't think it'd be hard at all. Time consuming maybe, but not hard. And yes PB is meant for people with no experience, but this would be for more advanced users. Nobody needs to know this. It'd be like advanced coding.

[Antikore]

Well, I don't think it'd be hard at all. Time consuming maybe, but not hard. And yes PB is meant for people with no experience, but this would be for more advanced users. Nobody needs to know this. It'd be like advanced coding.

It's hard, trust me, I've using a lot of GML this months. Simpler things than creating any coding language are still quite hard to me.

[War]

I think TingThing doesn't do it because two main reasons:

• Platform Builder is aimed for people who don't know how to program games very well
• It's too hard for him or too time-expensive

He also don't do it to make the UPE more useful

[Antikore]

He also don't do it to make the UPE more useful

I still think that any new useful addition to Platform Builder itself it's very welcome

[CGM]

Well, Antikore, TingThing has had a bit of experience. So he probably makes things faster than a beginner. Or amateur. I'm not entirely sure how skilled you are in GML. As for me, I'm at the beginner's stage.

[Antikore]

Well, Antikore, TingThing has had a bit of experience. So he probably makes things faster than a beginner. Or amateur. I'm not entirely sure how skilled you are in GML. As for me, I'm at the beginner's stage.

Yeah, TingThing does a lot of things faster and better than me, but if he couldn't do if stacking when he added conditionals, maybe it isn't that easy.

[TingThing]

A couple things:


I don't avoid stuff because the UPE can do it. Nor do I expect that people who use Platform Builder will eventually transition to the UPE. Most Platform Builder users don't use the UPE and visa versa.


The command prompt was never intended to be a programming language; it was designed to work like commands you might say to your smartphone. But then I added "if statements," and it opened the door to people thinking that the command prompt was an unsophisticated programming language instead of a sophisticated space where you could type simple commands and conditionals.


The command prompt is the most complex programming project I have ever done in my life. Someday I might re-look at the command prompt and try to rebuild it as a programming language. But to be honest, I don't know whether or not I could pull that off.

[CGM]

Well, it's worth a try...Isn't it? I think it'd be worth a try.