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Published inJul 2018
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Gabor Szauer
Gabor Szauer
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Gabor Szauer

Gabor Szauer has been making games since 2010. He graduated from Full Sail University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in game development. Gabor maintains an active Twitter presence, and maintains a programming-oriented game development blog. Gabor's previously published books are Game Physics Programming Cookbook and Lua Quick Start Guide, both published by Packt.
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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.

You can get started with Roblox development...

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Lua Quick Start Guide
Published in: Jul 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789343229

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Gabor Szauer

Gabor Szauer has been making games since 2010. He graduated from Full Sail University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in game development. Gabor maintains an active Twitter presence, and maintains a programming-oriented game development blog. Gabor's previously published books are Game Physics Programming Cookbook and Lua Quick Start Guide, both published by Packt.
Read more about Gabor Szauer