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ill make a simple racing game, including 1 player or 2 player options. Post it when its done, might be a while b/c of school.

[jediaction]

Cant wait. Im going to make a city game where you walk around a city and chat

[meirs]

First of all, I really liked to read this thread, it gives me lots of ideas about future extensions to Mama.

Originally Posted by arty-fishL

I just tried Mama and I still prefer Alice, if I was to use it I would just use it for the object modeller that doesn't need to take ages to convert and the exe export. The scripting thing is also different, with all Python being called from methods and no scripting done in the edit script bit (or I just I can't find that bit) and no command bar, it is quite annoying.
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Mama does support free scripting within a separate window and with syntax highlight. I just released version 1.5.2, which improves the configuration - added instructor/administrator config.txt file which dominates the user config.xml file.

So to enable scripting simply edit config.txt within Mama root folder, uncomment the line containing the variable 'enableFreeScripting' and set it's value to true. On the next run you'll see a new button - 'program' - added at the bottom of the editor window. Pressing that button will open a window for writing a free Mama script with syntax highlight. On world start that script will be ran.

Mama language is pretty similar to Python - in the coming days I will add to the documentation (en.eytam.com/mama/doc) a guide for scripting.

[meirs]

Originally Posted by Dameria

Yes but does mama's "create exe" work properly yet? Or is it still buggy? I have never used mama.

Mama is quite stable, and the "create exe" is stable as well. I put a lot of effort into the stability of the whole system, since as a programmer I know how important is the reliability of a development tool.

[Dameria]

The only reason why I am hesitant about downloading mama is because I hear that when you create a world it saves it as something different than .a2w? I want to be able to post my worlds on this forum, and I don't know if that would conflict with me being able to do so (would other people be able to play my "Mama" created worlds in Alice 2.2?)

Also, if I were to create a .exe, would I be able to upload that to the internet so people can download and play on Alice 2.2? Or would you need neither Alice or Mama in order to play it? With .exe, will the people playing be able to see the script, or will it only play the game? It would be great if it did not show script and did not require Mama to play it, then we could create anti-cheating online games.

[meirs]

You can run Alice worlds within Mama, but not the other way. Mama worlds contain additional information not understood by Alice.

Once you create standalone exe file with Mama, you don't need any of Mama or Alice - that's the meaning of standalone. And yes, you can put it anywhere you like, let other download it - and they would be able to run it.

[Dameria]

And there would be absolutely no way (or almost no way) for them to change the code within it? If so then this is exactly what we need for the jython scripting that is being planned in order to prevent cheating...

[jediaction]

Exactly. Thats what we said, oh and does anyone know how to bring in a pictrue into alice thats like not a square like DOTA. How did you make the title weith the cool red text? It was half transparent

[Dameria]

Originally Posted by jediaction

Exactly. Thats what we said, oh and does anyone know how to bring in a pictrue into alice thats like not a square like DOTA. How did you make the title weith the cool red text? It was half transparent

Jediaction, I said that before, not anyone else. I am pretty sure I came up with that idea. Also, what do you mean bring a picture into Alice? Do you mean like the fire animation where it is a 2D picture? Ask x2495iiii i think he knows how to do that stuff.

[jediaction]

I dont know how to bring in a half transparent pictrue like a """""not square""""" picture. Chris knows