Stat & Skills => the first editor is actually a viewer

While creating a game maker or actually any software you need always need to think about who will use it and make it so that your soft can actually be used by your audience.

Some software are quite simple to use, and just require a well done interface, others on the other hand may require a "new comer" interface as well as allowing advanced users to access more powerful tools.

For example in many 3D graphical software you will find the option to develop your own tools or automate tasks either by writing some scripts, or developing full plugins. While this is certainly not something every new comers will start with, it's something bigger companies may need to integrate the different tools of their pipeline and at the end save time / money.

For our game maker the situation is a bit similar, we must offer a relatively simple "click to create" option where all what's needed will be provided as default, with options to tweak some rules and yet if we really want to offer a good option as game engine, we must offer a more advanced way for developers to develop.

Therefore the current choice is to offer both a scripting language which is near Javascript as syntax, and at the same time "Wizards" to just tweak parameters without having to edit the code. The concept is currently fully implemented and it seems to work quite well. To show the "wizards" editor, I made a first "stats" and "skills" editor which actually only allows you to view the defined stats & skills.

On top of the page you see the possible tweakable values, while under you see the original code. Most likely the code will not be shown by default to avoid to scare the new comers, however currently I thought it was fun to see all at once.

Offering an incomplete implementation of the tools allows to discuss the matter with example on hand, and therefore let others fully understand the concept which otherwise could seems overly complex or completely unclear.