Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Release”

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Introducing Birdor Tools — A Calm, Developer-Friendly Toolbox for the Modern Web

Birdor Tools is now live.

A quiet companion for developers, built with the belief that good tools should feel calm, predictable, and pleasant to use.

Welcome to a place where engineering is simple again.

What Is Birdor Tools?

Birdor Tools is a developer-first toolbox and knowledge hub, designed to combine:

  • High-traffic foundational tools
    JSON formatter, UUID/Nanoid generator, Base64/Hash utilities, Regex tester, Cron visualizer, etc.
  • Enhanced, AI-assisted developer tools
    Clear, deterministic output — not hallucinations.
  • SaaS-ready APIs for production use
    Reliable, rate-limited, globally cached.

It is not a “tool dump”.
It is a curated, intentional, long-term product that emphasizes:

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Lua for Game Development — Chapter 19: Packaging, Deployment, Localization & Release Pipeline

You’ve built your game.

Now you must ship it.

Shipping a game is an engineering discipline in itself, requiring:

  • packaging
  • build automation
  • deployment to multiple platforms
  • patching & updates
  • asset pipelines
  • localization
  • DLC & mod support
  • crash reporting
  • analytics
  • CI/CD workflows

Lua games can ship to:

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Web (HTML5)
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Steam Deck

This chapter shows how to build a full release pipeline, regardless of engine.

1. Build Artifacts: What Needs to Be Packaged?

You must package:

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