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Time attack — a mode which allows the player to finish a game (or a part of it) as fast as possible, saving record times. Score attack — the attempt to reach a record logged point value in a game. Electronic sports — video games that are played as competitive sports. Piano roll; Meta Runner — a web series inspired by the tool assisted ...
Many non-game applications also use Lua for extensibility, such as LuaTeX, an implementation of the TeX type-setting language, Redis, a key-value database, ScyllaDB, a wide-column store, Neovim, a text editor, Nginx, a web server, Wireshark, a network packet analyzer and Pure Data, a visual audio programming language (through the pdlua extension).
Roblox allows users to create and publish their own games, which can then be played by other users, by using its game engine, Roblox Studio. [15] Roblox Studio includes multiple premade game templates [ 16 ] [ 17 ] as well as the Toolbox, which allows access to user-created models, plug-ins , audio, images, meshes, video, and fonts.
An anaphoric macro is a type of programming macro that deliberately captures some form supplied to the macro which may be referred to by an anaphor (an expression referring to another). Anaphoric macros first appeared in Paul Graham's On Lisp and their name is a reference to linguistic anaphora—the use of words as a substitute for preceding ...
Early automatic music generation functions were used in arcade video games, which used many computer sounds. An example of an early popular arcade game with music is The Circus from Exidy Corporation in 1977. The boom in Japanese video games was heralded in 1978 by the appearance in Japanese game centers (Amusement arcades) of Space Invaders by ...
Dice are an example of a mechanical hardware random number generator. When a cubical die is rolled, a random number from 1 to 6 is obtained. Random number generation is a process by which, often by means of a random number generator (RNG), a sequence of numbers or symbols is generated that cannot be reasonably predicted better than by random chance.
A USB-pluggable hardware true random number generator. In computing, a hardware random number generator (HRNG), true random number generator (TRNG), non-deterministic random bit generator (NRBG), [1] or physical random number generator [2] [3] is a device that generates random numbers from a physical process capable of producing entropy (in other words, the device always has access to a ...
Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards (RNG Awards) RingCentral, American company (NYSE stock symbol RNG) R'n'G, a Dutch hip hop duo; Ronga language, a southeastern Bantu language; Royal Never Give Up, Chinese esports team; University of Reading Herbarium; R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece 2004 studio album by rapper Snoop Dogg