Code Reference

Please follow the topic in this category to understand how to program games using the Xentu game engine.

Main Topics

• Introduction
• Coding Concepts

Engine Keywords

Xentu provides various keywords to Lua which act as your way of communicating and controlling the behavior of the engine. In this section we will look at what each of the keywords are provided, and how to use them.

The following sections are in order of importance:

• The game keyword
• The assets keyword
• The renderer keyword
• The audio keyword
• The keyboard keyword
• The mouse keyword
• The viewport keyword
• The config keyword

Engine Classes And Structs

Xentu also has a number of complex data types. Classes are those types that live in the C++ world exposing features to your code, where as Structs are native and more lightweight Lua objects.

• The Color struct
• The Font struct
• The Scene class
• The Sprite struct
• The SpriteMap class
• The TileMap class
• The TileMapLayer class
• The TileMapObject class