RE: History of Lua aside... note about game usage!

["Vincent Penquerc'h" <vincent@...>]

> What is your experience? Do people around you know Lua? How did
> they know about
> it? Did you tell them yourself or was it the other way around? Do you know
> other people that are using Lua but who are not in lua-l? Would

There is a link to Lua at www.allegro.cc, the home for a number of
independant beginner game developpers, and I once had someone exchanging
a few mails with me for some info about getting started with Lua for
such a game. The download count reads 177 now, though this gives little
indication of how many people actually tried it or are using it.

I've heard of a couple other game companies using Lua too, not in the
list of projects at TecGraf, though I don't know to what extent.

Also, I was involved in the genesis of an AI library, and I managed to
get people settling on Lua as a scripting language (people wanted to
use XML (!) as a *scripting* language. how odd...). Unfortunately, the
list kind of died due to insufficient time, during the conception phase.
This could have been a very nice use for Lua. At least this prompted a
few people to have a look at Lua, and I think they were nicely surprised
by its capabilities :)

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Vincent Penquerc'h