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Lucas Bertolini
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Lucas Bertolini

Lucas Bertolini has 10+ years' experience as a video game software developer. He has worked on three major projects: for Pollux Ltd. (Hong Kong) as a game developer and designer; for Schell Games (Pittsburgh, US) where he moved and worked as a developer until the project was completed; and for Globant as a developer. He has worked in technical education for 5+ years and has taught a variety of programming courses. He is the cofounder of NGA and Bytenarchy Studios, both digital services development companies that use Unity as their main technology. Lucas has written Hands-On Game Development without Coding, available from Packt.
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Visual Scripting

We are taking our first steps in this Visual Scripting video game development story, but we never stop for a moment to think why we call it Visual Scripting and how it works.

If we think about the term Visual Scripting, we can think of it as the action of writing a script with our vision, but of course that makes no sense.

Visual Scripting is usually considered the act of creating a program using a summation of different small programs interacting with each other. There are different tools for Visual Scripting, which focus on reducing the difficulty of creating a program.

With these tools, the crafting of a program happens through an interface, and as a result of this, the user doesn't need to code, but instead has to click, drag, and drop. This is the reason it is considered to be visual interaction with the tool, hence the term Visual Scripting.

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Lucas Bertolini

Lucas Bertolini has 10+ years' experience as a video game software developer. He has worked on three major projects: for Pollux Ltd. (Hong Kong) as a game developer and designer; for Schell Games (Pittsburgh, US) where he moved and worked as a developer until the project was completed; and for Globant as a developer. He has worked in technical education for 5+ years and has taught a variety of programming courses. He is the cofounder of NGA and Bytenarchy Studios, both digital services development companies that use Unity as their main technology. Lucas has written Hands-On Game Development without Coding, available from Packt.
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