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Originally posted by LordZen
Bah. Well of course if you guys want to get so technical then everything is considered a graphic that exists because HEY anything that is visible must be a graphic! So sure then script is a graphic in that you can see it...
But thats such a stupid argument.
The point about script is that it provides information that is interputed by the computer which executes actions..and tells graphics to be displayed or change or whatever if needed.
A txt only script game can survive and work on its own without graphics, but the same is not true the other way around.
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It's valid, and I got technical because I'm sick of this argument. It has been brought up many times, and I have discussed it many times. The argument isn't stupid, it's the people who think scripting is the magical twilight that creates a game.
Lets put it this way, Zen, would rather play a MUD, or play a game with actual decent graphics? I'm sure 99.9% of gamers would say graphics. It may just be the eye-candy, but programmers would be out of jobs if people didn't make graphics now'a days. Whilst the artists could go into pencil and paper drawing.
The deal is, the two infact do rely on eachother. Board games require no coding, except perahaps the machines that make them. Those machines need programming, no? I'm surprised you, being the Global Graphics Admin cannot realize this, and close the argument stating that programming and graphics are equal in value.
Graphics and programming rely on eachother. Without the other, one will not function. Period.