Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Bradley Aaron Rebh

David Walker

Ross Alan Cameron Gardner

Syed Suhaib Sarmad Barbero

Terence John Michaels

Joshua Rainbolt

Luis Rene Sempe Sosa

Charles Michael Hutchins Curran

Derric L McGarrah

Michael Graeb

Jegan Chen

Carlin Michael Rogers, Ii

Eric Schenk

Joseph Francis Stankowicz

Glenn Warren Van Houten

Joseph Thomas

Hsiu Quen Cheah

Daniel Lawrence Youhon

Guthrie Adams

A design platform facilitates development and management of interactions and events involving objects in a virtual environment, such as a gaming environment. Each object, or type of object, can have one or more tags applied. The tags are used to determine a rule to enforce when an event occurs with respect to an object, or the object interacts with another object in the environment. This can include, for example, determining an animation, sound, or action to trigger for the object. A set of rules can be defined, where each rule is associated with a set of tags. A custom expression can provide logic to be evaluated to determine which rule to apply for an interaction, where the script can specify certain tags, or groups or tags, that must be present, or not present, for the rule to apply. The tags for a given object can be updated dynamically during gameplay.

Interaction management for virtual environments

Technology is described for adding a component in an application. A user interface may be provided for selecting a component for the application. A request may be received to add the component in the application. A component context associated with the component in the application may be identified. The component context may be defined in part by a component context rule for adding the component. A determination whether to add the component in the application may be made based in part on the component context.

Context for components in an application

A visual scripting system can provide support for handling event-specific messages received through an event messaging system. The messaging system can provide event messages over one or more event buses that have a determined behavior context. An event node of a visual scripting system can enable a developer to specify event handlers to detect specific types of event notifications sent on a specified event bus, as well as specific actions to be taken in response to those event notifications, such as to send additional event messages, all of which comply with the behavior context. Once the event node is configured and properties and actions defined, the corresponding script can be generated by the visual scripting system, to be complied and executed as part of a user application.

Event handler nodes for visual scripting

Components associated with application entities can be grouped into one or more component groupings. A grouping can include, for example, components that include or specify parameters and settings for a gameplay entity of a gaming application. The grouping of components enables a single component group to be displayed through an editor interface instead of all the individual grouped components, which simplifies the view through the interface. A user can select important parameters to be exposed at the group level, such that those parameters can be accessed and set without having to access and search through the individual grouped components. The grouping can also be saved and used to develop subsequent entities, which can simplify the development process and ensure that necessary components are included for specific entity types.

Component grouping for application development

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