Glossary for terminologies and concepts used in Patchies.app
- Players: users who plays with the sandboxes.
- Playmakers: users who makes the sandboxes. can be the same person as the player.
- Sandboxes: the play spaces that people can play with. can act as a blueprint that provides toys people can play with. contains the rule, behavior and limitation of a sandbox.
- Objects: things on screen. can be created, updated, removed, and can do things depending on the behavior.
- Messages: data sent to an object.
- Behaviors: how objects connects, updates and interacts with one another.
- Connectors: cords that explicitly connects one objects to another. mostly used for routing messages.
- Toyboxes: collections of objects.
- Subpatches: patches that are nested inside a patch.