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`!GameMonkey Script`! is a small, `F33f`_`[cross-platform`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Cross-platform]`_`f `F33f`_`[scripting language`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Scripting_language]`_`f designed for embedding into games. GameMonkey bears many similarities to `F33f`_`[Lua`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Lua_programming_language]`_`f, except the syntax is more similar to that of `F33f`_`[C`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=C_(programming_language)]`_`f.

>>Contents

• `F0af`_`[History`#history]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[Features`#features]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[External links`#external-links]`_`f

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>>History

GameMonkey Script was written in 2002 by Matthew Riek and Greg Douglas as part of a closed-source project for `F33f`_`[Auran Development`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Auran_Development]`_`f. However, on 12 June 2003 Auran granted license for the full source code of GameMonkey to be released to the public under the `F33f`_`[MIT License`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=MIT_License]`_`f. It is currently being used in commercial and hobby applications on a wide range of machines, from the Windows PC, Apple Mac, and Microsoft Xbox to Sony's PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii and various distributions of Linux.

>>Features

• A cross-platform machine library

• C-style syntax

• A small `F33f`_`[memory footprint`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Memory_footprint]`_`f (~50 KB)

• Soft, real-time incremental `F33f`_`[garbage collection`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Garbage_collection_(computer_science)]`_`f (`*no reference counting)`*

• Native threading

• Full implementation of states

• Simple binding with C++ code

• Debugger support (with supplied debugger)

Like Lua, the primary `F33f`_`[data structure`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Data_structure]`_`f in GameMonkey Script is the table. Tables allow for a variety of other data structures to be created; from arrays, sets, hashmaps, lists and records. They can also be used to simulate namespaces and C++ class structures, containing both functions and properties.

>>External links

• GameMonkey Script homepage

• gmCommunity Project, pre-built GM binaries and reorganised headers

• gamedev.net, Introduction to GameMonkey Script Part 1

• gamedev.net, Introduction to GameMonkey Script Part 2

• gamedev.net, Introduction to GameMonkey Script Part 3

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