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Originally written by Jenkins:

Since I know a few programming languages, I'll finally be able to make some of the things I wanted to. I can't wait for this to actually come out.

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Originally written by Loki:

I had always planned on porting it to PC and if I use OpenGL as the graphics system.. then it will be much easier...

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Originally written by Haamana:

Q3) Bug fixes. I understand that a certain ammount of consistency is always required and that massive overhauls can sometimes be impossible after the initial release, but Blades has many minor bugs (such as the Stairway-on-connecting-town bug, empties, the resetting 0,0 flag, etc). Will bugs like these be fixed post-release in BoA?

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Originally written by Automator 4000:

What I'd like is a visual editor like "click to show whereabouts the monster will go etc." or a simple one at least which then converts it to a simple script which can then be refined to your heart's content. I hope someone knows what I'm talking about...

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Originally written by Void Master:

You are dead on here. My research with low-literate adults years ago indicated that people tend to notice the shapes of words, and capitals help them chunk letters into words. So DoThis is easier to read than dothis. Also, avoid all caps, like DOTHIS - actually the hardest to read of all, because you have no ascenders or decenders to hook on to.

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Originally written by Spidweb:

[QB]And finally, bear in mind that adapting to script is not as difficult as it looks.[QB]

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Originally written by Emsam:

Edit: Our neighbour had a commodore and all I remember of it is the horrible loading times.

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Originally written by The Absolut Sagacious stranger:

Have you ever used an old Acorn? We had one at primary school, 's how I got interested in computers.

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Originally written by Drakefyre:

BoA is not going to have an engine change from A3, so the details of programming like 1, 3, 4, and 5 are not going to happen, although there is a slight possibility of number one.

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Originally written by Alorael:

(or a good word processing program) is always handy.

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Originally written by Iabrochium:

Well, let's look at Blades of Exile as our example. In BoE, there is a maximum of 256 terrain, item and monster slots. This is because there are 8 bits (binary digits) used to define each terrain, monster and item, and the maximum number of things you can uniquely define with 8 bits is 2^8, i.e. 256.

At this point you may well say "why not use 16 bits (you have to use a multiple of 8 bits to store a number), so we can have 65536 different terrain slots?" Well, the problem with that is that it's very unlikely that most of those slots will be used, so every scenario file would be padded out with 60000+ terrain, item and monster slots that aren't used, which would take up exorbitant amounts of space. To prevent them from taking up space, Jeff would have to rewrite the way the game handles all these objects, which he's far too lazy and stubborn to do.

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