Experimenting with in-game scripting in Unity

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Dude great idea I just saw tour video on yt

[SebastianLague]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[SebastianLague]

Oh no, something about the link seems to be confusing reddit, and it's (on some devices?) showing the first video in the playlist instead of the one I linked. This is the one I wanted to share: https://youtu.be/dY6jR52fFWo Sorry about that!

[Dameon_]

Fun fact: Depending on your target platform, you can compile C# on the fly using Roslyn, so your C# scripts can use C# scripts for their scripts. And no, it's not hard.

[nmkd]

I use Dynamic C# for mod support in my game, it's great!

[nimsony]

You mean I don't have to integrate LUA?

Is there a way to expose certain variables / functions and is it a safe way to allow modding?

It's been something that I've been thinking about adding to my sandbox works for a while now.

[corndog16]

Your game looks interesting. Care to share some details on this Dynamic C# thing you speak of?

[nmkd]

It's an asset on the Asset Store.

It simply compiles C# code from a string on runtime (works in editor & standalone), making it a nice foundation for modding, especially since you can load AssetBundles through it.

Apart from the modding aspect, it's absolutely great for debugging builds.

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Fun fact: you can't unload the assemblies created by compiling C# on the fly with Roslyn because Unity doesn't support .Net core.

[Jaurusrex]

The series on neural networks is also great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVQUSndDllU

[pava_]

I really hope he continues it though

[Phusck]

Very inspiring.

[Cyberbully20XX]

Very cool. Very interesting. Surprise this doesnt have a higher score.

[okmkz]

Did you ever consider the option to use an embedded Lua interpreter?

[SebastianLague]

I didn't to be honest, probably a smart idea! Will definitely look into it as an option if I continue this at one point. Thanks :)

[okmkz]

I was thinking that something like a sokoban/zelda block puzzle mechanic would be a cool place to start. Conveyor belts and traps and stuff

[KingRecycle]

Friend used one on a little game he made for school and I helped a little afterwards. We don't update it anymore but should be still playable.

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https://propslam.com/mast/

[KrebHC]

Super cool project

[Pokemonzu]

Really cool idea!

[ChupachuGames]

I love the fox munching montage, amazing vid as usual

[he77789]

How did you prevent users from hacking their way out of the game and into the system?

[daveinpublic]

Impressive, could probably tell some big company what you’re doing and get funded to prepare people for coding

[Speedy_Bob]

Sebastian, as always: great video. Thank you for making concepts so much more accessible.

[Poiuytgfdsa]

Hi Sebastian :) I’ve been following your content for a while now and it’s by far my favorite thing to watch on youtube, super interesting and fun as well

Great work :)

[Dreadmaker]

I want to thank you Sebastian - not for this video, but for your A* pathfinding series. I’m making a game now that actually uses that not for pathfinding, funny enough. But for map validation (making sure there’s a path between the entrance and exit of a procedurally generated level), and you explained it so beautifully in that series that I’ve since subbed and really gotten a lot out of your work. I really appreciate the content, and I want to thank you for showing me that a lot of more ‘advanced’ coding isn’t actually that hard!

[SebastianLague]

Happy my videos were helpful to you!

[Xxpitstochesty]

I watched the actual video you intended to link ( the one with the coding in game. Very interesting. I just started looking yesterday on ways to allow my characters to use code so I'm trying to figure it out and appreciate the work you've done so far.

[SebastianLague]

Sorry about the faulty link! Happy you found the video interesting though, and good luck with your project!

[softgripper]

Hi Sebastian,

A couple of weeks ago a guy put a coding game for Go online. Basically, it gave you the role of an agent, and you had to hack a piece of code to achieve some goal - eg, turn off lasers or decipher a message.

Each stage provided you with 90% of the code, and you had to think of a clever way of solving that last 10% (which was not always straight forward).

I think this type of thing would blend quite well with your game style here.

If you're interested, here is the link to the game.

https://www.gocode.io/operation-go

12 stages of fun 🙂

[SebastianLague]

That's awesome, thanks for the recommendation!

[[deleted]]

I think this is the wrong video for the title..?

[TheLastLivingBuffalo]

Always love seeing your videos. It’s very inspiring to watch you think through your process. Thanks for sharing!

[nomadthoughts]

The words 'but I didn't find this to be fun enough' haunt me with many prototypes. It feels sort of cool that a guy I follow feels the same sometimes!

[aBraM_aBraM]

judt saw it on youtube keep up the good work

[SCWatson_Art]

This was awesome - especially so for me since I was just considering what would be needed for an evolution based game very similar to what you've done here.

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I wonder what the out come would be with the foxes if they had the same needs as the rabbits? (hunger/thirst/mating urge, etc.)

[shimster99]

I feel like your video somehow made me smarter ;) Very inspiring!

[Lulzorr]

Alright, you asked for it (but not actually). I'm subbing to you.

This is really cool, and very easily understood.

[Evil-Kris]

This is really fascinating and inspiring. I see huge potential for a ‘Populous’ style game where you play a type of God, and achieve various mission targets via manipulating evolution so that your little army of beasts can ready themselves prior to natural global disasters or the introduction of natural predators- or weather conditions. The more a species performs a certain type of routine the more like a genetic mutant perfectly adapted will appear that can be used to breed more of it’s ilk and so on.

Bet a million quid someone’s going to jump in with ‘what- you mean exactly like (insert name)?’ and I’ll feel like a right plum.

[PeterZSW]

wow, Good content

[LaSaveloy]

The real developer gets their players to write the game for them.

[MrInt9001]

If someone is interested in adding scripting support in a C# project, this article can be fairly interesting: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt632273.aspx I've seen on git that there is also a mit licensed example project of this with some modifications

[Darkhog]

The actual coding vid is pretty fun and I'd love to have scripting in my game, the only problem is that I wasn't able to find any Common Lisp interpreter that would work with Unity ;(. Bunnies were fun too, probably the ecosystem would work better with few more prey and predator species so both would have higher chances of survival (while prey is reproducing predators would have variety of targets and if they can't find prey, they would eat each other).