In the past we have always said that Iron Python will not work with XNA GSE because the runtime won't work on the360 due to the lack of things like Reflection.Emit

But now I see this:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2205163,00.asp

"Hugunin said the DLR works with several Microsoft products, including XNA Game Studio, Microsoft Robotics Studio, ASP.Net, Windows Vista, Exchange Server and Silverlight. He then showed a demonstration of Silverlight running on Firefox with an application written in Python. "

So has anything changed - maybe for 2.0 - that now enables this, or is it just wishful thinking on the DLR teams part?

We still don't support System.Reflection.Emit on Xbox 360. After reading this article, it is entirely unclear what is meant by saying "the DLR works with ... XNA Game Studio".

It's possible that the DLR does not rely on Reflection.Emit, or that a subset of it works without Reflection.Emit. Or it's possible he means it works with the XNA Framework on Windows. Some of the other statements are equally ambiguous and/or statements of the obvious. What does it mean to have the DLR work with Exchange Server, for example? And what managed code doesn't run on Vista?

I guess we can wait and see what the DLR has in store for us.

 Mainly for scripting events, since it would be nice to have some of my non .NET teammates script the events in python, and then the game automatically consume it at runtime, that way they wouldn't have to touch the compiler to see changes.

 
I believe the Verge game creation does something like this: http://www.verge-rpg.com, except it has it's own scripting language.

Taken from your blog post:

Rainault:

Let's kick this blog off with an announcement: I'm pregnant.

All I know is......it aint mine. So tell Maury I won't be showing up.

Thanks. I'll keep an eye on your project. Everything went well when I brought the subject up, until I mentioned the word "Lua" (I'm surrounded by Python fanatics). How hard would it be to make a Python port of this? Only reason I ask is I have no experience in writing a script parser....

HerrUppoHoppa: XNua is a solution if all you need is Lua scripting for your XNA game project. If I understand it correctly, it compiles your scripts via the Content Pipeline, not at runtime. So it is a project with a different purpose. Also, I think it's only built for XNA GS 1.0. It might work for 2.0, but I wasn't able to get it working at first blush.

OrbitalSoft: I originally chose Lua because it was a relatively easy language to implement. With no official OOP, and with the table being the only data structure, it took a lot of worries off my mind and let me concentrate on getting something done. Implementing something like "SilverPython" is possible, but Python is a much more complex language. I may consider working on a project like that in the future, but definitely not the near future.