Rules
Boardgame Lab uses a powerful visual scripting system that allows creating rules without writing any code. Rules can be attached to individual components (you can attach a rule to a card that determines what happens when that card is played, for example). Rules also describe what happens on a player’s turn and the general flow of the game (turn orders, phases etc.).
Expressions
Rules are assembled as series of steps, each containing an expression. An expression is something that produces a value. Expressions could be simple arithmetic operations or complex transformations on data coming from a property. For example, 2 + 3 is an expression that produces the value 5.
Expressions may also contain actions that are performed on the board (shuffling a deck, for example).
Actions are also expressions even though they don’t really produce a value. They’re treated as expressions that produce an empty value.
Literals
Literals are the simplest types of expressions. They simply specify the value that they produce directly.