Where Lua is used - an extensive list of lua related tools

Mells · January 2013

Gideros is missing from the list
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What do Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Angry Birds, Apache HTTP Server, Apache Traffic Server, the Firefox web browser, MediaWiki, and World of Warcraft all have in common? They are all extensible using the cross-platform Lua programming language, winner of the 2011 Game Developer Magazine Front Line Award because:

Lua has become an extremely popular programming language, so much so that it's achieved a critical mass of developers in the game industry, meaning Lua skills are transferable from company to company. That's partly due to its speed and the ease with which developers can embed Lua into a game engine.

This web page catalogs stand-alone programs that are written in or are extensible using the popular Lua programming language.

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@OZApps behing the author of a book on the topic, this might get your attention.

Corona ok, Codea ok, Moai ok, Löve2D ok... oh? Gideros is missing.

If you know of any missing apps, can provide corrections or additional detail about any listed apps that lack a description, or have any relevant suggestions, your input is appreciated. Please post to the Lua-l mailing list. You can subscribe at http://www.lua.org/lua-l.html.

If somebody here is subscribed to the Lua-l mailing list, maybe it's worth leaving a mention about Gideros.

OZApps · January 2013

The author is Paul E. Merrell but he has provided no details on how to contact him or provided corrections/additions.

Mells · January 2013

@OZApps It's written above:

If you know of any missing apps, can provide corrections or additional detail about any listed apps that lack a description, or have any relevant suggestions, your input is appreciated. Please post to the Lua-l mailing list. You can subscribe at http://www.lua.org/lua-l.html.

I thought that some people here would already be subscribers.

ar2rsawseen · January 2013

Yes @GiderosTeam who of you is responsible for marketing and promotions?

For example, we've been participating here:
http://gamefounders.com/

And if you look at the partner's list: http://gamefounders.com/#/partners
Then there's Unity, there's even Corona, but no Gideros! Someone is not doing his (or her) job

OZApps · January 2013

agreed, there are many places where Gideros is not featured, it needs exposure for letting developers know that even Gideros exists.

Garyk1968 · January 2013

Is Angry Birds extensible via Lua? I dont think it is.

techdojo · January 2013

No but it IS written in Lua - although interestingly enough "Bad Piggies" is a Unity based product.

Where Angry Birds is concerned there is a lua script for each level, it's parsed to created each individual level structure (I suspect Rovio's level builder tool probably output's Lua source) and any special cases can be coded as and when needed.

OZApps · January 2013

While most of the logic is written in Lua, the Lua code is encrypted. Hopefully we will get this feature soon with Gideros.

Garyk1968 · January 2013

No but it IS written in Lua - although interestingly enough "Bad Piggies" is a Unity based product.

I read that its written in C, granted it may store and load level data in lua files.

techdojo · January 2013

The engine would be (Lua is written in C) - a lot of game engines are written in C/C++ and use lua, by including lua.c and exposing their methods to the lua scripting engine.

If you take the Android version and rename the .apk to .zip (all .apk's are just .zip files in disguise) and extract it, you'll see all the lua files for each level etc - but as @OZApps said they're encrypted so you can't delve too much deeper

evs · January 2013

Hello,

I unzipped the iPhone .ipa file and all of the game and level code was lua (encrypted)

cheers

evs

techdojo · January 2013

I forgot - .ipa's are also just .zips in disguise

OZApps · January 2013

ipa's (which are zip files named as .ipa)contain three items
- iTunesArtwork - The Icon that you see in iTunes
- iTunesMetadata.plist - This is used for DRM and has your info/proof of purchase
- Payload (folder) - Containing the actual .app

If that is helpful to anyone

techdojo · January 2013

It can be quite interesting dipping into other peoples .apk's and .ipa's even if it's just to see how they structured the data files that they use, organise their graphics assets etc, it's quite amazing how many programmers leave so much "useful" stuff lying around

OZApps · January 2013

It can be quite interesting dipping into other peoples .apk's and .ipa's even if it's just to see how they structured the data files that they use, organise their graphics assets etc, it's quite amazing how many programmers leave so much "useful" stuff lying around

Have you ever had a look at the resource files the one with wheels (.car) they hold the most interesting stuff. Reminded me almost of the times aroudn 1995 with RIFF formats that M$ was using for every file format they used. ani, mid, pal, etc...

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