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Game Development With LUA (Game Development Series) 1st Edition

by Paul Schuytema (Author), Mark Manyen (Author)

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complex GUIs and artificial intelligence. If you're a developer just starting to use Lua, or you're considering using it, Game Development with Lua will teach you everything you need to know. And if you're new to scripting languages altogether, this book will also teach you how they can be used in game development effectively. Written by practicing Lua game developers, the book teaches how to use Lua for commercial game development. It begins with a brief history of Lua and explains how to incorporate Lua into a C++ project. It details the key features and advantages of Lua and then takes you through the development of a "rapid prototype" game called Take Away. This game provides the context with which to explore the foundational C++ approaches and the Lua scripting approaches to saving and loading game data, building a modular and flexible GUI system, managing a game's real-time events through Lua scripts, and using Lua to define and control game AI. There are also several smaller games along with a full technology base, so even non-programmers can look under the hood to see what makes a game tick. If you're looking for an efficient, affordable, and easy-to-learn language for your games, Lua is the right choice and this book will teach you how to use it effectively.

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1584504048
ISBN-13

978-1584504047
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1st
Publisher

Charles River Media
Publication date

August 5, 2005
Language

English
Dimensions

7.25 x 1 x 9 inches
Print length

314 pages
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Paul Schuytema (Monmouth, IL) has been a professional game developer for over ten years and in that time spoke at the previous ten GDC conferences. He has produced and designed over twenty games. Schuytema wrote more than 200 professional articles and authored or co-authored over a dozen books. He teaches college-level creative writing and journalism, and he received the Governor¿s 2002 Entrepreneurial Success Award in Illinois. He is the primary scriptor for Magic Lantern.

Mark Manyen (Monmouth, IL) is the technical director for Magic Lantern and has directed the technology on more than 25 games. He incorporates Lua into Magic Lantern¿s J5 technology suite and creates all ¿Lua Glue¿ hooks into the J5 codebase.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Charles River Media; 1st edition (August 5, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 314 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1584504048
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1584504047
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.75 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 1 x 9 inches

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Charles L.

Windows XP and VS 6.0 only

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2021

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The CD and all the code is specific to Windows XP and VS 6.0 only. The authors say a future edition would be updated to .NET platform. Also the code on the CD is not commented. Not very good object-oriented design.

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khaos

amazingly insightful!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 8, 2011

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As a developer new to Lua, this book serves as a great introduction and reference guide. It started with the basics, explaining the history of Lua and what it was originally designed for. I was able to ramp up my Lua Development after reading this book.
For anyone looking to develop games with Lua, this book is a must have. I highly recommend it for everyone from the seasoned developer to the noob with aspirations to build games.

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Psychonaut_1968

Hardly Worth the Price

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2006

The best thing about this book is that the CD contains an environment where you can script projects -- like the example game -- in Lua. The example game itself is not stellar. In fact, it ran very poorly on my PC, which is a new state-of-the-art game development system. The actual scripting presented in the book is not particularly elegant. That is, the title is written more from a hobbyist's perspective than the POV of a professional developer. In order to really learn Lua, you would be better off purchasing _Programming In Lua_ and talking to other Lua programmers on the Lua forums ([...]

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Leider nur für Anfänger

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on December 11, 2010

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Ich habe das Buch gekauft in der Hoffnung, dass ich die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten zur Verwendung der Scriptsprache Lua im Bereich Game Development zu lernen. Sehr wichtig war mir hier also die Verbindung zwischen der Scriptsprache und C++, die unterschiedlichen Möglichkeiten zum Datenaustausch und evtl. noch diverse Einstiegspunkte für eine ordentliche Architektur zu finden.

Als Entwickler, der mit Lua noch gar keine Erfahrungen gemacht hat, ist dieses Buch sicherlich ein netter Einstieg. Man lernt die Sprache kennen, und man sieht, wie man eine Verbindung zu C++ schaffen kann. Als Einsteiger im Bereich Game Development kann man hier ebenfalls ein paar Tipps finden.

Hat man sich jedoch bereits mit der Materie beschäftigt, ist das Buch gänzlich ungeeignet. Man lernt einen eher ungeschickten Ansatz der Integration zwischen den Sprachen, die verwendete Algorithmik in den Beispielen wirkt sehr unausgereift und kaum durchdacht.
Sehr schockiert hat mich im Kapitel zum Thema Datenaustausch ein Absatz, in dem stand, dass es zwar eine weitere Möglichkeit gibt komplexe Objekte zwischen den Sprachen auszutauschen, dies sei jedoch zu aufwändig und zu kompliziert, würde desswegen also auch nicht im Buch erwähnt werden.
Gerade wegen dieses Themas habe ich mir jedoch das Buch gekauft, da ich die restlichen Dinge auch mit anderen Büchern und Online Dokumentation viel besser lernen kann.

Ein Kapitel konnte ich total vergessen, weil man hier die Erstellung von Projekten in Visual C++ lernt, was für ein Linux System komplett ignoriert werden kann. Desweiteren wird für die Oberflächenprogrammierung DirectX verwendet, das ebenfalls nur für Windows zur Verfügung steht und zudem noch proprietär ist. Gerade für Indie Gamedeveloper ist dies kaum hilfreich.

Alles in Allem war ich sehr enttäuscht von der Qualität der Inhalte und der Codebeispiele. Für fortgeschrittene Entwickler nicht geeignet. Höhstens blutige Anfänger in der Spieleentwicklung und in der Verwendung von Scriptsprachen können hier noch etwas lernen.

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Luaの本は当時あまりありませんでした

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on February 12, 2014

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私がこの本を購入したころ
Luaによるスクリプトでゲームを駆動させるような話題を扱った本はほとんどありませんでした。

今は和書もありますが。

残念ながらこの本を超える本はまだないようですね

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