Re: LUA training for Game Design

[kenk@...]

Haha, don't worry Peter, I did the same thing when starting up with  
LUA.. err. Lua! :) Outside of spelling it wrong enough to cause mass  
eruption.. You can ask pretty much any other question, no matter how  
dumb it may sound and get excellent answers!

Quoting Henrique Becker <henriquebecker91@gmail.com>:

> Lua, not LUA.
> Lua (LOO-ah) is a brazilian word for moon.
>
> 2010/8/9, Peter Miller <SoulLifter@ca.rr.com>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Former programmer here and I'm interested in game design now.  It seems that
> > knowledge of LUA/Python are both highly desireable in the field of game
> > design.  I honestly haven't programmed in about 13 years (not a huge fan of
> > it) but I'm willing to learn LUA to some degree if it will help me get into
> > game designing.  I was never the best coder, but I'm good with puzzles,
> > characters, placing, concepts and all the rest so I'm pushing myself to
> > learn enough LUA to be useful as a game designer.  Since I'm a poor
> > self-learner, I was hoping someone might know of a place I can train in LUA
> > around the Los Angeles area.  It's been tough for me to track down actual
> > LUA training or classes on the web.  I see there is a Python class at UCLA's
> > Extension program but it seems LUA is preferable to Python.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!



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