Patchies - Glossary

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.

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