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Lua Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Lua Quick Start Guide The easiest way to learn Lua programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343229
Length 202 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gabor Szauer Gabor Szauer
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Game mods

Lua's highly flexible and easy-to-embed nature makes it appealing not only for game engines, but games as well. Several games provide a very large, comprehensive Lua API with the intention of allowing hobbyists to modify and extend the base game. Often these mods lack official documentation, but they tend to have a large active community to make up for it.

Roblox

Roblox is not exactly a game; it's a platform for building games. However, Roblox resembles a game more than an engine, which is why it's listed as a game. Roblox allows users to create and share games using Roblox Studio. It exposes programming through Lua, which exposes an object-oriented Lua API.

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