tophat VS vdrift

My scripting language Umka now supports closures. This is not merely a matter of fashion, but the requirement of the Tophat game engine that heavily relies on callbacks, particularly for inter-module communication via signals.

So, whether you're an experienced game developer or just starting, give tophat a try and see how it can make your game development process more comfortable, faster, and more enjoyable. Check out the website, and let me know what you think!

Umka is now used for scripting in Tophat, a simple modular 2D game framework by Marek Maškarinec. Tophat 1.0 offers all basic functionality for graphics (including sprites, animations, particles and fonts), sounds and misic, keyboard and mouse controls. It also features collision detection and 2D path planning capabilities.

I have been developing the statically typed scripting language Umka for more than a year. Now it is stable enough to serve as the basis for various projects: a 2D game engine, a VDrift-based framework for exercising with the car autopilot logic, and a proprietary tractor dynamics simulator.

After a year of development, Umka is now in the heart of tophat, a new 2D game engine.

There is also a noteworthy fork[0] which allows you to design, tune, debug and test your own racing car autopilot using an embedded scripting language[1].

[0]: https://github.com/vtereshkov/vdrift

I have been developing the statically typed scripting language Umka for more than a year. Now it is stable enough to serve as the basis for various projects: a 2D game engine, a VDrift-based framework for exercising with the car autopilot logic, and a proprietary tractor dynamics simulator.

When you engage the autopilot by pressing F10, the autopilot algorithms contained in control.um and track.um are invoked. The default scripts implement a vanilla PD (proportional/differential) controller, which is not quite satisfactory at high speeds or sharp turns but can serve as a starting point for your experiments. The Umka interpreter supports "warm reload" by recompiling the scripts every time you engage the autopilot.

A new version of the VDrift racing simulator that supports embedded scripting in Umka has been released. It lets you design, tune, debug and test your own racing car autopilot without building the whole simulator from source.