The Lua Game Community

Chapter 8. The Lua Game Community

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

Of the three languages covered in this book, Lua is the most widely used in the game industry. It is already an established tool in a handful of large game shops, and it also has a history with some of the biggest games to come out on the PC. It would be folly to try to list all of the projects in which Lua has been a player (although the Lua home site has a fairly large sampling of projects). This chapter instead highlights a few key projects.