Domain-specific entertainment language

Domain-specific entertainment languages are a group of domain-specific languages that are used describe computer games or environments, or potentially used for other entertainment such as video or music.

Game languages

• Extensible Graphical Game Generator - language which is used to generate games ^[1]
• Zillions of Games - for grid-based games
• ViGL Video Game Language ^[2]
• Ludi Game Description Language ^[3]
• Game Description Language ^[4]
• UnrealScript
• GameXML^[5]
• Xconq^[6]
• Game Integrated Development Environments
• The Card Game Language^[7]

Interactive fiction

• Inform 7 -- Interactive Fiction.
• Infocom -- Zork and related games
• TADS -- Text Adventure Development System
• Ren'Py -- A visual novel engine

MUDs

For more details on this topic, see Category:MUD programming languages.

• LambdaMOO has a specific programming language that users use to extend the system.
• In LPMuds, LPC is used to extend the system. SWLPC is one variant on it.
• TinyMUCK and derivatives use the language MUF.
• ColdC is another C-derived MUD language, used by ColdMUD.
• MUME developed and publishes its language Mudlle.
• DG scripts are a content-development scripting language for MUDs.

References

1. ^ EGGG : The extensible graphical game generator by Jon Orwant, a Ph.D. Thesis
2. ^ "Video Game Language (ViGL)" begins to abstract away all the reusable technical and game related aspects that most games utilize into a domain specific language.
3. ^ http://cameronius.com/bio/publications/thesis-2.47.zip
4. ^ Game Description Language Specification (PDF)
5. ^ GameXML is a collection of XML specifications which describe and script computer simulation engines. Developed by the XML Game Consortium (XGC), it is an on-going project to create a reusable, standards-based architecture that can be applied toward computer games and simulations.
6. ^ Xconq Xconq is a general strategy game system. It is a complete system that includes all the components: a portable engine, graphical interfaces for Unix/Linux/X11, Macintosh, and Windows, multiple AIs, networking for multi-player games, and an extensive game library.
7. ^ The Card Game Language The Card Game Language, or CGL for short, is a language which was developed during created by students in a project dedicated to the subject of language and compiler theory.

External links

• Programming languages used for music
• Jeroen Dobbe's Master's Thesis