What Game Engines Use Lua
C++ Lua Game Engine Designed
C++ Lua Game Engine Designation

A puzzle game made in a custom C game engine. The player may give up arrow keys to create panels and use them to solve puzzles. Duration 4 weeks What I did. Engine (see below) Resolution-independent UI system; Level design & export tools for Unity; Tweening; What I used C, C#, OpenGL, GLSL, Lua, Lua C API, Assimp, Unity. This is a list of game engines actively under development that use the Lua programming language to script game logic. Unlike the earlier C# and C lists, t. Game c windows linux multi-platform opengl lua game-engine fps game-development macosx multiplayer-game fps-game wolfenstein enemy-territory game-engine-3d network-game legacy-mod etlegacy Updated May 17, 2021.

A good game needs great graphics, nice music and cool characters

- and of course a well designed game user interface!

I created this course to help the indie developer community to create clean and engaging UI designs for their games. Even if you are not a designer, you can just download this free software, and follow my course! :)

During the course we will use the amazing open-source software Inkscape. Inkscape is a vector graphical software, which makes it perfect for 2D game element design.
During the course we will learn the theory of game UI design, and we will create:

several icons and icon sets
buttons and menus in various styles
2 versions of UI design for a fantasy game,
2 versions of UI for a space shooter,
and one version for a casual gem stone game

We will also draw an icon set for a ninja game - that lesson is a free preview, check it out!

Although this is a beginner game UI course, a basic Inkscape knowledge is good to have. I stop and explain every single step I make, but you have to work on your own confidence and skill level in Inkscape.

Important: We will create all the buttons and icons during the course, however, recreating the game screens shown in the preview and used as a base to design on during the lectures are NOT part of this course!
Also, this is a UI course, we are not working on the UX part of he design.

Developers, who want to design their own games
Designers, who want to learn more about Game UI Design
This course is NOT for you if you are a seasoned UI designer. This is a beginner course!

What Game Engines Use Lua

I am working on my next game project: Idle Space Factory. It’s a game combining resource management, factory building and trading. I have been using TypeScript for all my games for a while and I couldn’t be more happier. The gradual and structural typing system, plus the powerful type inference make TypeScript a great fit for game development. In the early prototyping phase, I don’t have to bother with the type declarations, since they will change anyway. And when I’ve “found the fun” and start production, I can add the types and enjoy the type safety.

C++ Lua Game Engine Designed

However, TypeScript/JavaScript is not very commonly used as the scripting language for games. For this purpose, Lua is more widely used. Lua is like JavaScript’s weird cousin, built especially for embedding into C/C++ codebase. A big Lua codebase is very hard to maintain. Also when I work on game mods, I have to constantly look at the documentation (if there’s any) to explore the API surface. It would be much nicer if it is built into the editor’s intellisense. I’ve been looking at and trying out several “Typed Lua” transpilers for different games.

C++ Lua Game Engine Designation

Haxe

Haxe is probably one of the first transpilers that provide a Lua target. Since Haxe itself has been out for a while and are widely used in game development, the IDE and tooling support is relatively good. Haxe’s language feature and standard library is quite big, therefore the Lua target is a much smaller subset. So using it in a embedded game might not be as straightforward. The transpiled source is hard to read and oftentimes embedded Lua requires exposing certain functions/variables from script as the entrance, this adds to the difficulty.

Teal

Teal comes from the author of LuaRocks. It’s relatively new and use a minimalist approach when it comes to adding static typing, which makes is very suitable for using in embedded Lua environment. The language itself has some influence from TypeScript when it comes to introducing a type system for a dynamic language. Since it is quite new, the features are still changing and the IDE/tooling support is still catching up. But even using it as is, it already provides benefits to existing Lua codebase.

TypeScript

I have discovered TypeScriptToLua while writing a Dota 2 Bot a while ago. At that time it was still quite new and the transpiler has matured quite a bit since then. Building on top of TypeScript brings the benefit of top notch IDE/tooling and TypeScript’s superior type checking system. There are of course caveats like Haxe as well. But arguably, JavaScript is definitely closer to Lua compared to Haxe. The transpiled source is still readable and it makes working with embedded Lua much easier. And people have been providing type declarations for popular embedded environment already. However, it is important to keep in mind that not all TypeScript features are supported because of language difference.

It’s been a while since I work with Lua and I am definitely happier working with TypeScript nowadays. If you are currently working with Lua and want more type safety, I recommended checking these out.