Introduction of uBlockly - Reimplementation of Google Blockly in Unity

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Blockly Model
3. Code Interpreter and Runner
4. UGUI Design

For Chinese:

1. Introduction
2. Blockly Model
3. Code Interpreter and Runner
4. UGUI Design

Block-based programming language has seen a growing popularity nowadays, both in Kids' education and Robot for fun industries. Google Blockly has provided a fundamental solution facilitating building flexible and interactive Web Block-based Programming Apps. So I decided to move it to Unity. However, due to the incompatibility and dissimilarity of the two platforms, I have to reimplement the core logic in C#, and provide specific impementations for the code runner and UI, which make up UBlockly.

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Modularization

UBlockly consists of 3 modules: Blockly Model, Code Interpreter and Runner, UI.

Blockly Model is the core logic, which is translated from Google Blockly.

Code Interpreter is IEnumerator-based mechanism for interpreting block behaviors in C# functions. Code Runner is a controllable runtime for running those interpreters.

UI is implemented in UGUI, facilitating automatic block generation and dynamic layout.

The details of these 3 modules will be given in the following 3 blogs.

How to Use

Check README for how to use this cool project!