colobot
luau
colobot | luau | |
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11 | 64 | |
1,085 | 3,629 | |
0.6% | 1.9% | |
9.0 | 9.0 | |
2 days ago | 5 days ago | |
C++ | C++ | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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colobot
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ACSLogo for Mac OS X
While I never had this, there are a series of games that my brother and I, (and later my school) used to learn similar concepts! https://colobot.info/
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Show HN: Engineering Games (List)
Not a Steam game, but an amazing programming puzzle game that I keep looking for a modern version of.
Year: 2001
Title: Colobot
Link: https://colobot.info/
My description: Use code to direct wheeled, hover and flying bots to construct, combat and explore.
Description: Colobot (Colonize with Bots) is an educational, post apocalyptic real-time strategy video game featuring 3D graphics, created by Swiss developer Epsitec SA. The objective of the game is to find a planet for colonization by the human race by establishing a basic infrastructure on the surface and eliminating any alien life forms endangering the expedition. The game takes place on the Earth, Moon, and seven fictional planets. The main feature of the game, which makes it educational, is the possibility for players to program their robots using a programming language similar to C++ or Java.
- Dungeon KeeperFX 1.0.0 has been released
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Trying to remember the name of an old 3D Linux game where you're an astronaut placing batteries in robots and programming them to perform various tasks.
I remember reading about this game back when they opened the source code. Looks like it moved here, but latest commit was almost 2 years ago. r/Colobot haven't seen much activity either.
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Custom worlds
Oh if you look for programming, try Colobot , it is now 20 years old...
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[PC] [Not sure of release date] 3D platformer, graphics reminiscent of PS1 era
CoLoBot (Gold Edition)?
- Looking for games with programmable avatars AI
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Please add it it's the only text-based language I know!
Well, you program it in java like language with proper syntax. https://colobot.info/
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Games that also teach you a skill?
Did you get Colobot Gold Edition? Available here : https://colobot.info/
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Show HN: Yare 2 – Programmable RTS game
a very different take on programmable rts is https://colobot.info/
this is a very old game that has seen an open source release (including free assets) somewhat recently.
the original game is fully playable on modern platforms; lately some multiplayer features were added that look quite a bit of fun.
this is an early-noughties 3d rts, with the twist that all units (including the enemy, though this is obscured during normal gameplay) run user-editable code that can be changed in-game.
the rts campaign is supplemented by exercises designed to introduce complete beginners to programming (e.g. write a maze solver or a waypoint-driver flight controller).
the genius is, in my opinion, in that the affordances and fidelity of the simulation is such that controlling e.g. a flying flighter is fun and accessible.
do give this a go -- perhaps with your kids.
luau
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Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically
As far as I can tell, they aren't.
http://lua-users.org/wiki/SandBoxes
There is a lot of information there, but it doesn't handle resource exhaustion, execution time limits or give any guarantees. It does indicate that it's possible, and has a decent example of the most restrictive setup, which is a good start. But I would for example compare it with Luau's SECURITY.md.
From https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/blob/master/SECURITY.md:
> Luau provides a safe sandbox that scripts can not escape from, short of vulnerabilities in custom C functions exposed by the host. This includes the virtual machine and builtin libraries. Notably this currently does not include the work-in-progress native code generation facilities.
> Any source code can not result in memory safety errors or crashes during its compilation or execution. Violations of memory safety are considered vulnerabilities.
> Note that Luau does not provide termination guarantees - some code may exhaust CPU or RAM resources on the system during compilation or execution.
So, even luau will have trouble with untrusted code, but it specifies exactly what happens and so on. I think that's fair enough.
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Pluto, a Modern Lua Dialect
Alternatively, Luau is a well-supported Lua variant with type checking and performance improvements, aimed more towards being a sandboxed embedded scripting environment.
https://luau-lang.org/
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Buzz: A lightweight statically typed scripting language
If you need Lua but also type-safety, how about Luau [1] then?
[1] https://luau-lang.org/
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Lua Criticism Is Unwarranted
I had the pleasure of working with Lua 5.1 back in the late noughties. For me it's replaced Tcl whenever I want something I can configure above a C library. At the time I used it I found it quite nice but I'll also not forget the hours I wasted tracking down nil table corruptions which could have easily been caught by a type checker.
I had some hope that Luau https://luau-lang.org or Teal https://github.com/teal-language/tl would make things better but with the following example
function foo(x: number): string
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Ask HN: Looking for platforms, other than Roblox, that have adopted Luau
Looking at other replies here, I can see I wasn't the only one who didn't realize there is Lua and Luau. Luau is an extension of Lua: https://luau-lang.org/
> Luau is syntactically backwards-compatible with Lua 5.1 (code that is valid Lua 5.1 is also valid Luau); however, we have extended the language with a set of syntactical features that make the language more familiar and ergonomic.
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Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9
Lua is usually the embedded language of choice. If you are focused on security, you could check out the Roblox fork, Luau (https://github.com/Roblox/luau) where the creators took extra care to lock down the language on what scripts could do.
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Creating a simple sandboxed language
Luau - Lua variant by Roblox
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The Warframe Lexicon for Updates
On a side note, I've heard that they recently switched from Lua to Roblox's own fork of Lua, Luau.
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Lua: The Little Language That Could
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=luau+roblox&sp=...
Luau
https://github.com/Roblox/luau
Roblox wrote a superset of Roblox Lua which is way faster
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Scripting Resources MegaThread
https://luau-lang.org/ - some documentation, and examples https://create.roblox.com/docs - documentation, tutorials, and examples https://www.youtube.com/user/AlvinBLOX - tutorials https://www.youtube.com/@TheDevKing/videos - tutorials https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/ - not specific to Roblox, but Lua reference manual https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-lua - Lua on Codecademy
What are some alternatives?
keeperfx - Open source remake and Fan Expansion of Dungeon Keeper.
lua-languages - Languages that compile to Lua
rpp - Rashi Plus Plus - the new Hebrew scripting language
LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository
OneLife - a multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building
moonsharp - An interpreter for the Lua language, written entirely in C# for the .NET, Mono, Xamarin and Unity3D platforms, including handy remote debugger facilities.
Silice - Silice is an easy-to-learn, powerful hardware description language, that simplifies designing hardware algorithms with parallelism and pipelines.
lua-language-server - A language server that offers Lua language support - programmed in Lua
scratch-www - Standalone web client for Scratch
tl - The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua
moonscript - :crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua
rbxfpsunlocker - FPS Unlocker for Roblox