Script | Peroxide

Is it the future of modding? Possibly for multiplayer, competitive, or simulation-heavy games. For a simple UI script? Probably overkill.

let enemy_health = 100 let preview = !> enemy_health - 20 // Creates a bleached copy print(enemy_health) // 100 (unchanged) print(preview) // 80

This allows modders to simulate "what-if" scenarios (damage prediction, UI previews, network rollback) without cluttering the live game state. It’s like Git for game variables. Most scripting languages pause the world to clean up memory. Peroxide uses reactive reference counting with a twist: objects self-destruct when their last stable reference disappears. The Bleach Operator creates ephemeral references that vanish automatically after the current frame. Peroxide Script

But what makes it "peroxide"? The name hints at its core mechanism: . Let’s break it down. 1. The Bleach Operator: !> The headline feature of Peroxide is the Bleach Operator ( !> ). In traditional scripting, if you modify an object, all references see that change. In Peroxide, mutation is opt-in and temporary .

// To commit the bleach back: enemy_health <-! preview // Stabilizes the change Is it the future of modding

For two decades, modding has been a war between accessibility and power. Lua is friendly but slow. C++ is fast but unforgiving. Peroxide Script, a new open-source embedded scripting language, claims to offer the best of both worlds—with a chemical twist.

But as one modder put it on the forums: “Once you bleach, you never go back.” Author’s note: Peroxide Script is currently at version 0.9.2 (codename “Hydrogen Peroxide”). The 1.0 release is planned for Q4 2026. Probably overkill

Developed by independent game studio (and later open-sourced in early 2025), Peroxide Script ( .ps or .h2o2 ) was designed to solve a specific pain point: safe, concurrent mutation of game state without garbage collection stutter.