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It would be an interesting project to offline the game - but I do wonder how hardcore the calculations are that run it. Would it be realistic to run the game itself and the server-side simulation stuff (nulling input from other cities) on an ordinary desktop computer? Or would you definitely need a secondary machine?
What parts of SimCity were written in Javascript? (Before you say "The UI, obvs", I'm wondering if it's a common practice to write UI code in games in javascript. I know that Gnome has a lot of JS that's tied into UI, I didn't expect the practice to make itself into game dev). And if this code is actually from SimCity, does SimCity have some type of v8 or other js engine packaged with it?
It's becoming more common. Libraries like Awesomium[1] make it trivial to render browser content to an in-game texture and the V8 engine, while not 'easy' to integrate, is quite empowering in that you can have the UI code call directly into your compiled code.
>does SimCity have some type of v8 or other js engine packaged with it?
Very probably. Most games have some scripting layer in their engines to simplify implementing non-performance-critical game logic. Lua and JS are two of the most popular languages for achieving that these days.
3.5 mb of Javascript. Glug. Looks like just the game ui. I cannot really find references to DRM like the title says. Lots of nice references to cheats though! They all rely on simcity.DEBUG being true, if (simcity.DEBUG) switch (a) { case scrui.kKeyCodeDigit1: c && (e && !d) && scrui.RunCheat("scgameui -unlockalltools"); break; case scrui.kKeyCodeLetterW: c && (e && !d) && simcity.CreateUnit("T_RCI_AddHourlyIncomeChe…
That's the REST url
It would be an interesting project to offline the game - but I do wonder how hardcore the calculations are that run it. Would it be realistic to run the game itself and the server-side simulation stuff (nulling input from other cities) on an ordinary desktop computer? Or would you definitely need a secondary machine?
3.5 mb of Javascript. Glug. Looks like just the game ui. I cannot really find references to DRM like the title says. Lots of nice references to cheats though! They all rely on simcity.DEBUG being true, if (simcity.DEBUG) switch (a) { case scrui.kKeyCodeDigit1: c && (e && !d) && scrui.RunCheat("scgameui -unlockalltools"); break; case scrui.kKeyCodeLetterW: c && (e && !d) && simcity.CreateUnit("T_RCI_AddHourlyIncomeChe…
What parts of SimCity were written in Javascript? (Before you say "The UI, obvs", I'm wondering if it's a common practice to write UI code in games in javascript. I know that Gnome has a lot of JS that's tied into UI, I didn't expect the practice to make itself into game dev). And if this code is actually from SimCity, does SimCity have some type of v8 or other js engine packaged with it?
Q: Is the launcher built on WebKit or some other layout engine? Are there things in game that are WebKit too?
A: The whole UI is done in javascript running a custom version of webkit. :D
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It would be an interesting project to offline the game - but I do wonder how hardcore the calculations are that run it. Would it be realistic to run the game itself and the server-side simulation stuff (nulling input from other cities) on an ordinary desktop computer? Or would you definitely need a secondary machine?
I think it's worth noting that older versions ran completely fine executing the totality of the required code...
The Maxis team has talked quite a bit about the challenges in making their agent-based simulation engine, Glassbox, performant on low- and medium-spec PCs.
What parts of SimCity were written in Javascript? (Before you say "The UI, obvs", I'm wondering if it's a common practice to write UI code in games in javascript. I know that Gnome has a lot of JS that's tied into UI, I didn't expect the practice to make itself into game dev). And if this code is actually from SimCity, does SimCity have some type of v8 or other js engine packaged with it?
>I'm wondering if it's a common practice to write UI code in games in javascript It's becoming more common. Libraries like Awesomium[1] make it trivial to render browser content to an in-game texture and the V8 engine, while not 'easy' to integrate, is quite empowering in that you can have the UI code call directly into your compiled code. >does SimCity have some type of v8 or other js engine packaged with it? Very p…
We switched to using Chromium Embedded 6-8 months ago and haven't regretted it a bit.