ENIGMA Development Environment

The 'View New Posts' feature of this board is not returning any posts for me any more..

Does anyone know what the problem might be?

Thanks for the response Josh, I figured you would have thought about most of these points already. I was prompted to make this topic because I saw Omega_red saying he posted about Enigma on the u3d forums. As said I think advertising Enigma too early could damage it, timing when Enigma is at the correct stage is an important factor.

The GM user base is obviously the main one to target initially, for an easy source of members. Signature banners are a good idea (I found the forums myself from somebody's sig on the gmc), I wonder if the gmc administration might ban them however? PM'ing the more intelligent members or friends on the gmc is also another possibility though, without causing nuisance at all. However once Enigma has full (or near full) support with GM you may find a greater form of advertisement in people posting about it in topics. Someone asks "How Can I Make My Game Faster?" and some members might responding "Try downloading and compiling in Enigma." or someone asks what language they should move onto and someone may say "Try moving onto Enigma". I'm unsure whether the gmc administration may ban these types of posts though.

I specifically mentioned "What information is best displayer to so and so people" as I think it is an important consideration. If a complete beginner stumbles across Enigma and sees it being described with things like "C++", "re-compiled" it is likely to deter them from using the software. Enigma should ultimately be just as easy to use for beginners as GM is however. The way GM is described is specifically to attract these very beginner users, of course doing this then deters the more already capable users by making the program sound less powerful (which Enigma wont be). You really have to choose carefully what kind of market you are going to try and attract as pitching for one side naturally deters the other.

You also have to think about the forum set-up in the same way. Is there going to be a board specifically made just for gml? Because I guarantee if GM users post here for help and members start reeling off C++ to them it will drive them away. How complicated/advanced the forum appears to a browsing user will naturally influence how difficult they think the program is to use and how difficult the forum is to use.

By YYGs backlash I don't expect any legal action to be taken, but how difficult could they make your life if they intentionally changed GM in future versions to try and make it incompatible with Enigma? Also as mentioned previously the administration could also decide to take a zero tolerance approach to the mention of Enigma on the gmc, this will largely cut off the ability to reach the average GM user.

Any news/predictions for when everything will be sorted and the zip re-released?

Didn't know you could do that

Should be link somewhere to something like that so more people would use.

Haha! The problem is (yes, entirely my fault) that the code is in fact, too short.

Ah, that makes sense how I got it to work earlier when using more code.

Think I'll sit back now until another update.

Well I used break; in a repeat statement and it did not recognising the repeat as a loop so I presumed they where not working. Upon testing the repeat statement is actually crashing enigma for me.

Anyway, I'll use this thread as somewhat of a priority list when the rest of the install issues clear.

Yes, it would be nice to have a single thread discussing ongoing function implementation. This is really the fun part, having the ground work set then watching as enigma becomes ever more functional. I'm hoping it can get to a state now with this release where it can start to actually be properly introduced to some of the GM user base.

Obviously I've found many incompatibilities when trying to run existing GM project. I'm building up a list of common ones I am personally finding. For the following things can any info please be provided as to the state of their development and the expected time they will take to be implemented it would be nice to know

median
ds_lists
ds_maps
ds_stacks
moving around functions

outside room event
switch statements
other statement inside with statements
drag & drop actions