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awnlee jawking ๐Ÿšซ

For two days now I've been wracking my brain trying to remember a technical programming term for an autonomous video game object, broadly analogous to object-oriented in business programs.

Help!

(NB not relevant to current WIP, but to do with a story idea I have rattling around in the vast emptiness of my skull.)

AJ

Replies:   Gauthier
BlacKnight ๐Ÿšซ

Mob? (Generally refers to monsters and the like; short for "mobile". It's become a general gamer term, but I first encountered it in MUD programming back in 19*mumblemumble*.)

Replies:   Not_a_ID
Not_a_ID ๐Ÿšซ

@BlacKnight

I always thought it was "monster or beast" but that could have been a backronym in play.

I could also go for it having been a Mobile OBject rather than just MOBile being invoked.

Also worth mentioning: Doodads

Gauthier ๐Ÿšซ
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@awnlee jawking

autonomous video game object

I'm not sure what you mean by autonomus, but that ussaly refer to NPC, the guidance would be done by some IA called a bot.

Movement for non autonomous object would rely solely on the physics engine.

Othere possible terminology:

-component

-display object

-rig (Mesh + bones + bones hierarchy + constraints)

But each game engine framework has it's own vocabulary...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines

Replies:   awnlee jawking
awnlee jawking ๐Ÿšซ

@Gauthier

I think the term mots closely resembling the one I'm looking for is 'bot', although I suspect you're right in that the exact term is probably specific to a particular video game engine.

By coincidence, the answer to one of today's paper's quick crossword clues was 'sprite'.

AJ

Replies:   Dominions Son
Dominions Son ๐Ÿšซ

@awnlee jawking

By coincidence, the answer to one of today's paper's quick crossword clues was 'sprite'.

Was it looking for a computer sprite, a mythological sprite, or the soda brand?

awnlee jawking ๐Ÿšซ

@Dominions Son

The mythological sprite - the clue was something like 'Elfin creature'.

AJ

StarFleet Carl ๐Ÿšซ

@Dominions Son

Was it looking for a computer sprite, a mythological sprite, or the soda brand?

I think it was the one that led him into a maze of twisty little passages, all alike ...

BlacKnight ๐Ÿšซ

E. S. S. S. N. E. E. NW. GET CHEST. SE. N. D. E. E. XYZZY.

Replies:   Dominions Son
Dominions Son ๐Ÿšซ

@BlacKnight

YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED A DEMON. ATTACK OR FLEE.

Replies:   StarFleet Carl
StarFleet Carl ๐Ÿšซ

@Dominions Son

PLUGH

Replies:   Ernest Bywater
Ernest Bywater ๐Ÿšซ

@StarFleet Carl

Well, since someone else got all your base and it now belong to them, I want all your treble.

Replies:   StarFleet Carl
StarFleet Carl ๐Ÿšซ

@Ernest Bywater

But it is all about that bass, no treble ...

Replies:   Dominions Son
Dominions Son ๐Ÿšซ

@StarFleet Carl

But it is all about that bass, no treble ...

A group of small balls of fur playing alto saxophones...

Treble with tribbles

StarFleet Carl ๐Ÿšซ

@Dominions Son

A group of small balls of fur playing alto saxophones...

Treble with tribbles

Just transport them to the Klingon engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all ...

Replies:   The Outsider
The Outsider ๐Ÿšซ

@StarFleet Carl

The whole kit and kaboodle?

Ernest Bywater ๐Ÿšซ

@Dominions Son

Treble with tribbles

10 points for the pun of the week.

Replies:   richardshagrin
richardshagrin ๐Ÿšซ

@Ernest Bywater

pun of the week

week pun?

Replies:   The Outsider
The Outsider ๐Ÿšซ

@richardshagrin

It canna handle the strain, Cap'n!

awnlee jawking ๐Ÿšซ

Sprite? (Maybe outdated.)

Thanks.

That's a term I haven't heard for a while. I think you may be right about it being outdated, but it's definitely a forerunner of the technology I'm thinking of.

AJ

Replies:   madnige
madnige ๐Ÿšซ

@awnlee jawking

Sprite gets my vote. I think it was one of the early Atari machines that had some dedicated sprite handling hardware.

Replies:   Michael Loucks
Michael Loucks ๐Ÿšซ

@madnige

Sprite gets my vote. I think it was one of the early Atari machines that had some dedicated sprite handling hardware.

My somewhat addled memory says my Atari 800 had sprite handling software and the key was to move things during the vertical retrace...but that was a LONG time ago. :-)

Replies:   AmigaClone
AmigaClone ๐Ÿšซ

@Michael Loucks

My somewhat addled memory says my Atari 800 had sprite handling software and the key was to move things during the vertical retrace...but that was a LONG time ago. :-)

Other "home computers" of the time (late 1970's early 1980's) including Commodore's C64 and Texas Instruments TI99/4A also had what were called "sprites".

Replies:   Ernest Bywater
Ernest Bywater ๐Ÿšซ

@AmigaClone

Way back when images were in fixed locations set on either the screen or the background while an image that moved around the screen to any position (with the exception of the cursor) were called sprites, and most often found in games.

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