John Imboden

What is Lua  Embeddable scripting language  Creators: Roberto Lerusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes  Designed using a bottom up design scheme  Originally developed as a tool for business applications (mainly data entry)

Why I chose Lua  Significant titles World of Warcraft Sim City 4 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning FarCry

What can Lua do?  Lua’s use in the gaming industry User Interfaces Ai scripts Game animations

Example UI

Limits of Lua?  Lua is highly customizable  Lua has a high overhead if data is declared improperly

Pros of Lua  Highly Portable  Extremely easy to incorporate in C or C++  No need to recompile while debugging  Familiar syntax for those used to C

Cons of Lua  Memory management  Out of the box debugging is lacking  Global Variables

Evaluation  Readability  Writeability  Reliability  Cost

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