Question Lua

~~6d23~~ · 09-22-2009, 08:38 PM

Can i make games in lua, i have seen that many games uses lua...
how to make a game in lua?

~~6d23~~ · 10-02-2009, 03:46 PM

anyone?

shuuhen · 10-02-2009, 06:25 PM

You probably could make a game in Lua, but I don't think I've seen a game written in Lua. What I've seen is games that use Lua to allow people to write extensions to the main program, like World of Warcraft. Most likely, WoW is written in C++, but has an interpreter built-in. I haven't seen much Lua game development literature, but what I've seen looked like it was focused on using Lua for extending game.

As long as you can handle graphics and input in Lua, I'd expect it to be possible to write a game in Lua. If you want to do a game entirely in Lua, you might want to look into using SDL with Lua. I did find one link on Lua SDL: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaModuleLuaSdl. For most games, I would probably recommend C++, but I've seen interesting work done with Perl (Frozen Bubble).

~~6d23~~ · 10-03-2009, 09:16 AM

thank you very much

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shuuhen Manager Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Colorado Posts: 988 OS: Mac OS 9.1, Mac OS X 10.5.8, WinXP Pro, FreeBSD 6.0, Gentoo Linux My System	Re: Question Lua You probably could make a game in Lua, but I don't think I've seen a game written in Lua. What I've seen is games that use Lua to allow people to write extensions to the main program, like World of Warcraft. Most likely, WoW is written in C++, but has an interpreter built-in. I haven't seen much Lua game development literature, but what I've seen looked like it was focused on using Lua for extending game. As long as you can handle graphics and input in Lua, I'd expect it to be possible to write a game in Lua. If you want to do a game entirely in Lua, you might want to look into using SDL with Lua. I did find one link on Lua SDL: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaModuleLuaSdl. For most games, I would probably recommend C++, but I've seen interesting work done with Perl (Frozen Bubble). __________________ Has it been a few days since I replied to your thread? Don't panic! I'm a busy college student and may forget a post if I'm extra busy (or it might just take me a while to be able to do a decent reply). If you still need help and are awaiting my reply after a few days, PM me about it. When posting what errors you get, please give the full message. It makes helping you much easier. Last edited by shuuhen; 10-02-2009 at 06:28 PM.

10-03-2009, 09:16 AM	#4 (permalink)
~~6d23~~ Troubled Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 16 OS: xp	Re: Question Lua thank you very much