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Lua Game Development Cookbook

You're reading from Lua Game Development Cookbook Over 70 recipes that will help you master the elements and best practices required to build a modern game engine using Lua

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781849515504

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Lua

Tools

OpenGL

Concepts

Game Scripting

Author (1):

Mário Kašuba

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Basics of the Game Engine

2. Events FREE CHAPTER

3. Graphics – Common Methods

4. Graphics – Legacy Method with OpenGL 1.x–2.1

5. Graphics – Modern Method with OpenGL 3.0+

6. The User Interface

7. Physics and Game Mechanics

8. Artificial Intelligence

9. Sounds and Networking

Index

Chapter 1. Basics of the Game Engine

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Preparing a basic file structure for the game engine
Making a stack
Making a queue
Making a prioritized queue
Extending ipairs for use in sparse arrays
Creating Lua modules
Handling errors with pcall, xpcall, and assert
Using Lua with existing projects written in C/C++
Getting LuaSDL for libSDL 1.2
Designing the main application loop with LuaSDL

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Authors (1)

Mário Kašuba

Mário Kašuba

Mário Kašuba achieved a master's degree in applied informatics at Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, where he used the Lua language in 3D robotics simulations and developed various multimedia applications along with a few computer games. Currently, he is the co-owner and chief information officer of an IT Academy company, while he also leads courses on C/C++, PHP, Linux, Databases, Typo3, Silverstripe CMS, VMware virtualization, and the Microsoft Windows Server operating system. He also works as the head web developer and system administrator for the web portal http://www.rodinka.sk/.

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