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Extending Games With Lua

Posted by Zonk on from the making-things-make-more-sense dept.

RealDSmooth writes "2old2play.com has a nice article up about extending World of Warcraft, Neverwinter Nights, and other games using Lua, a light-weight programming language made specifically for enhancing and extending games. It goes into some great details about what's available today, and where Lua is heading in the future."

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  1. Umm, no, not specifically for extending games by cookd · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lua was definitely not designed specifically for extending games. It is a general purpose scripting language designed to be easy to embed and easy to use. It has been embedded into a number of games because it is hightly suited for this kind of embedding, but it was not originally intended for games.

    I've been working with Lua off and on for a while. I have to say that it is pretty darn cool. It is really easy to embed, really easy to extend, and really lightweight (about 90k or so). The language is very simple, but still supports a lot of advanced programming concepts like closures.

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