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Everything about this game makes me love game development even more

Super informative video, thank you!!

I had no idea what game was this, but then you showed it and I was like "Wait, isn't this the mini-game from Dave The Diver??" and then I found out they added it as a collab before I bought the game 😅

bro anthers ladder exists lol

Man, Lua is such an underrated language. You know I'm pretty sure mods for Garry's Mod are written in Lua. Unbelievably powerful stuff!

Ugh, Jonathan Blow is such a dick

You know who else loves Lua? John Romero. I'm serious, he thinks writing games in Lua is as fun as writing games in the 80s.

why is a card game nominated? i'm really surprised.

Hello guys my name is Multiplier

will this do for lua what undertale did for game maker?

wait, so one of my favorite game right now was made in one of my favorite languages, which im currently learning? nice

this guy made this video just so he could say “I use vim btw” at 1:39. Don't lie to us! I will subscribe now. Thanks.

Lua is awesome!

Love2d uses SDL which is much better

"backwards-compatible, but not always" 😂😂❤

linux manifesto os providing tools instead of "solutions"

Had to come back to this and say that it's so fucking cool to have a software engineering TH-cam channel that's about engineering software and not about quitting your software engineering job while you make avocado toast talking about how "it just feels like time". Tom Delalande 🐐

Lua is by far my favorite language ever since I discovered it in Garry's Mod

Lua getting famous is amazing ❤

Not to be a bitch here, but when you're trying to demonstrate how easy it is to work with LUA or any other programming language by ripping the source code and a shader you didn't make, that kind of defeats the point of the exercise of benchmarking the engine/code difficulty when all the hard shit was just done for you. Also not sure what your intent was when you showed Jonathan blow's advice here since it had nothing to do with your discussion, but changing your game engine doesn't make you any more or less capable to develop a game. i really did not like it when i heard you say "if you want to skip all the tutorials, engines, dependencies and headaches" becasue 1: you didn't showcase how different the engine is from the others outside of just saying the engine is fast, which for a non-demanding 2d game is a really low standard. 2: you didn't show how different Lua is to other programming languages which might be a little important if a programmer is coming straight out of C++/C#. 3: Lua can have dependencies, and you literally used an online shader and the Love2d API as a dependency. luarocks.org/ 4: as it turns out, every game engine is going to require some level of practice to get good at working with. Unity, UE and Godot are not some herculeian task to get good at like you think it is, it's no harder to learn how to work with than Adobe Premiere, and if those were that hard to use then people would have stopped using it to make games years ago.

oh shit the elden ring dlc was written with lua?

Thanks for sharing, Love2D looks like a great beginner framework to get started with.

Never heard of this game, crazy😢

LUA is a Brazillian language

Lua's a neat language, but I'd really love to fix some of its flaws. For starters, I'd make arrays use a 0-based index, but then I'd change the comment character because var-- is far superior to var = var - 1; I'd add all the compound assignment operators. For that matter, I'd make operator overloading easier, at least for user defined types.

0:10 ngl I get it that this can be easily seen as the guy being "mad" and spewing a hot take just to be a contrarian (as he usually is), but it does make a lot of sense when taking into account how much the ability to research and figuring out things on your own (especially due to missing/vague docs and similar) comes into play at game dev... that is especially evident when browsing communities like reddit's whereas a lot of enthusiasts just keep making threads about the most frivolous questions nonstop and more often than not go absolutely nowhere with the answers they get. not even about "elitism" or whatever, but rather just being realistic. "mean spirited" answers, rude comments, and blunt criticism don't amount to 1/1000th of the actual pain and frustration you'll go through when trying to start a game dev career from scratch - so it kinda shows when one is already that discouraged by them.

I've always admired Jonathan Blow's ability to say something that's generally true, or even wise, in the most abrasive way possible such that you end up missing his point

LUA SUPREMACY

Go and build it, start somewhere. Said it all

At 4:16 you talk about drawing to a canvas first rather than drawing straight to the screen - why do you do this? What is the benefit?

JBlow is right btw

jblow is such a dunce

Its Löve2D, not Love2D

Make one of these videos about telegram

This is really inspiring

MonoGame , FNA, Defold (review) please

Didn't John Romero recommend Lua for early gamedev

When I used to make custom maps for Warcraft 3, the map editor supported a scripting language called Jass, which is similar to Lua. In the 2010s, OOP was unofficially added to Jass via vJass. Neovim is actually how I initially got in touch with Lua. and was unable to ignore the resemblance.

Awesome video. Will you be able to share the scripts you put in the automation folder?

iirc, FromSoftware's (devs of Dark Souls and Elden Ring) in-house engine uses LUA as bindings to code the logic in the game. The engine itself is written in C++, but the code for things like player, enemies and NPCs were written in LUA (or HavokScript which is some alternative version of LUA).

Lua is like c++ interop javascript for desktop. Javascript is like... c++ ffi.. wasm interop javascript for desktop and web. Guys, I think I know where I'll start.

Hades and Hades 2 are also written in lua. I read the title before I saw the thumbnail and my mind immediately went to the two Hades games.

a card game GOTY? wtf

Don't starve together is also developed in lua

a short and sweet video essay. Amazing format you have <3

The game awards itself is a joke, but *this* was pretty cool

Chloe Burbank vol 1 lookin

Loved this video

This is literally the first time I've heard of this game lol. That developer is way too aggro about this mid ass game 😂 Typical middle aged "game" dev

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