Blue Mars Game Programming

From Blue Mars Developer Guidebook

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Game Programming

1. Overview
   • SDK
   • Minigames & Entity scripts in general
2. Lua
   • Lua Programming
   • Entity Scripts
   • CryEngine Lua Utilities
   • Lua Debugging
   • Converting Flowgraphs
   • Security Sandbox Environment
3. Blue Mars Lua API
   • ActionMap Manager
   • AI
   • ARVirtualWorld, including Time Of Day
   • Boids
   • Cameras
   • CryAction
   • Dynamic Object
   • Dynamic Texture
   • Entity
   • Game Tokens
   • Inventory
   • Material Effects
   • Movie
   • Multiplayer Minigame API (low level API: Multiplayer, not recommended)
   • Particles
   • Physics
   • Script
   • Sound
   • System
   • User Interface - Flash in Blue Mars
     • HUD
     • FlashOverlay
   • Utilities
   • Vehicle
   • Web Overview
     • Web
     • ARWebUtils
   • XMLtoLua
   • Ways to access Avatar Data such as Name and ClientID
4. Minigame & Entity script examples
   • See the Script Center for a Basic Script example, code snippets and developer-contributed usable scripts
   • Bowling - highlights features of an in-city game, including spectators
   • Golf - a complete walk-through of the game script (note the setting is less typical; it takes place in a separate level which does not rely on standard avatar sync'ing/navigation)
   • Multiplayer Golf - demonstrates use of the Multiplayer Minigame API
   • High Score Server - submit/request data to/from an external database
   • Molecule Viewer - request data from an external database
   • TicTacToe - demonstrates use of the Dynamic Object framework

Reference

Sandbox2 Editor Manual

Asset Creation Manual