[Bf-taskforce25] BGE 2.5 Proposal

[Wahooney]

I hope that posting this here is the right move, feel free to chew me 
out if it isn't :)

I know that BGE work on 2.5 is still in progress to get it working, but 
it might be the right time to show my proposal: Behaviours.

I have used Torque Game Builder for a few years and they have a very 
interesting mechanic called behaviours which may help the BGE cause 
somewhat and the way I see it it has the potential to either completely 
replace the logic brick system or at the very least make it more 
powerful. Think of behaviours as modifiers for game logic.

Essentially a behaviour is a structured script that defines an object's 
role in the game world, so you will just select a game object and assign 
one or more behaviours to it, examples include: Mouse Look, Keyboard 
Control, Take Damage, Deal Damage, etc. Behaviours will have a UI that 
will allow users to set the parameters of the behaviour, like how 
sensitive mouse look is, which keys are bound to which directions and 
how fast movement in each direction is, how much damage an object can 
take, how much damage an object deals, etc.

What the script will do is setup the object's logic to fulfil the 
behaviour, so in the case of Mouse Look, it will create the Mouse Move 
sensor, add the script controller and the movement actuator an link 
everything up, which all happens in runtime, keeping your logic brick 
stack clean from common tasks and open for more complex ones.

Behaviours can be as simple as making an object a rigid body or as 
complicated as implementing a full set of FPS controls and everything in 
between.

It is a very efficient system because a user will be able to create a 
complex behaviour and apply it to any object with the click of a button. 
I'm sure that BGE can benefit from some, if not all, of it's methods.

Another implementation idea, perhaps a better and possibly easier 
implementation at that, is to allow the development of scripted logic 
bricks with multiple inputs and outputs, which I believe is on the cards 
with the EAR Inc. effort (correct me if I'm wrong). This solution may 
very well be the middle ground between the power and flexibility of 
logic bricks and the ease of behaviours.

Thanks for reading my ramblings guys and gals.

Keith.