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Beginners > DSLua is brilliant to start off
#103028 - jester - Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:11 pm
DSLua is a brillieant coding language to start of learning!!!
That looks a bit strange.. Reminds alot of some different BASIC-based programming languages.. And it seems to be pretty easy to use for beginners.
#104484 - sajiimori - Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:42 pm
Easy as BASIC, but with advanced features like closures and coroutines. Lua is great.
#104721 - TOAST - Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:13 pm
sajiimori wrote:
Easy as BASIC, but with advanced features like closures and coroutines. Lua is great.
Ye, but it looks a bit limited atm.. :/ Well i'm not really sure about that since i haven't red any documentation.. (Is there any?)
#104756 - Al - Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:02 pm
Programming in Lua is a pretty good introduction, and there's the Lua Manual for complete reference (anyone know what version of Lua is used in DSLua?).
Lua is lovely - we are using it extensively for gameplay scripting on this. How useful it is on the DS depends on how good the libraries provided to access the hardware features are - looks like they've got some nice sprite support already.
#104785 - TOAST - Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:00 pm
Lol and i tought Lua was made for DS game development.. ;P Never acctualy heard of LUA before..
#104787 - Al - Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:24 pm
It's been around a while now - I remember first hearing about it when Grim Fandango came out about a decade ago. Here's an interesting piece on how they used Lua: