Boardwalk, in subsequent versions, may be used to make multiplayer animated games (if the XO Laptop is not too slow), and these games are coded in a built-in scripting language called Treescript. Non-programmers can use the Level Editor and the Vector Editor to create simple animated games, and programmers can add functionality to these games.
These low-level components are the basic building blocks of animated games, otherwise known as “atoms.”
Coord: Point on screen
Rect: Rectangle
Quad: Rectangle with fill color
Ellipse: Circle or oval
Disc: Ellipse with fill color
Polyline: Set of connected line segments
Shape: Set of connected line segments (polygon with fill)
Bitmap: Rectangular array of pixels (colored dots)
Text: Label containing text