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Words

The words Patchwork uses, each in one line.

Scenes

scene: A file saying how a world starts and which plugins it uses. A game's manager scene holds its other scenes.
world: A scene's fixed numbers and settings. Seats are never sent it.
prefab: The starting values of a new row's changing fields, one per kind.
actors: The rows a scene starts with, one entry each.

row: One thing in the world, holding what every seat must agree on.
kind: What a row is.
definition: A kind's fixed numbers, its entry in the game's data file.
actor: A kind's code: its rule, run on the server every step, and its drawing, run in the page.
hook: A rule that runs every step: before, tick or after.
act: Something a row can be asked to do.
open: The acts any seat may ask for, not only the seat that possesses the row.
spawn: To make a row.
end: To take a row out of the world.
seed: world.seed, the number every random roll in a truth starts from, so the rolls are the same every run.
die: w.die(), a random roll from 0 up to 1 drawn from the seed.

truth: A running world, held by the server.
step: One tick of a truth's time. Every hook runs once and every seat is sent a packet.

seat: A player's place in a truth.
slot: The number of a seat: 0, 1, 2 and on.
possess: To play as a row. A seat possesses its own player row.
message: A seat asking a row to act, sent from the page to the truth.
packet: What a seat is sent each step: the rows it may see.
piece: What decides what each seat may see and send, such as interest or vision.
client: The page's side of a seat.
pipe: What a client takes packets from and sends messages down, connected by scenemanager.
wire: A transport's page side.
transport: The addon that carries packets and messages: loopback in one process, socket between two.
envelope: A packet or message labelled with the scene it belongs to.

plugin: A piece that lives in the world or in the player's browser, with a server half, a browser half or both.
addon: A piece that holds a truth: seats, connections, files, timers, or what a packet carries.
mod: A file by which one plugin gives another what it knows, switched on by the scene.
ledger: A row that only appends events, each played or drawn once by the page.
store: The page's own values, such as volume or rebound keys, which the server never sees.
catalogue: A scene's list of the files the game uses.
local: State only this page needs, such as the camera or a menu cursor. It is never sent to the server.
page: One of a game's HTML files: index.html, client.html or dev.html.
testbed: dev.html, the page where any scene can be entered and any value overridden.

extension: A piece of the editor, as a plugin is a piece of a game.
recorder: What holds a game's truths under the editor's clock and rebuilds any step by replaying.