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Pages in category "Lua (programming language)-scripted video games" The following 180 pages are in this category, out of 180 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
Some games that do not natively support Lua programming or scripting, have this function added by mods, as ComputerCraft does for Minecraft. Also, Lua is used in non-video game software, such as Adobe Lightroom , Moho , iClone , Aerospike , and some system software in FreeBSD and NetBSD , and used as a template scripting language on MediaWiki ...
It is written in C++ and provides bindings for various programming languages, including C++, C#, Lua, and JavaScript. The framework offers a wide range of features, including physics, particle systems, skeletal animations, tile maps, and others. Cocos2d was first released in 2008, and was originally written in Python.
Scripting is often contrasted with system programming, as in Ousterhout's dichotomy or "programming in the large and programming in the small". In this view, scripting is glue code , connecting software components , and a language specialized for this purpose is a glue language .
Additional functionality can be implemented in software's scripting language or platform-specific native extensions. [8] In GameMaker Studio 2, users can choose whether to export the game as an NSIS installer, or a .zip file containing the game, the data.win file, and any files added under the "Included Files" tab in the editor. [9]
Lingo was invented by John H. Thompson at MacroMind in 1989, and first released with Director 2.2. Jeff Tanner developed and tested Lingo for Director 2.2 and 3.0, created custom XObjects for various media device producers, language extension examples using XFactory including the XFactory application programming interface (API), and wrote the initial tutorials on how to use Lingo.
The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line by line, to the duck. [1] Many other terms exist for this technique, often involving different (usually) inanimate objects, or pets such as a dog or a cat.