Re: Moai Cloud - Lua-based Web Services

[Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@...>]

If only this had existed a year ago, I wouldn't have spent much of the
last year implementing it all myself. :/

As cool as Mongrel/Mir are, I decided to go with the Nginx/ngx_lua
approach, though. Still not done with the client networking code, but I
don't need to do much at this point, since I'm just handling virtual
currency transactions and not doing real-time multiplayer.

The game engine also looks good, and when I get some free time I'll have
to check it out; if it's good enough I may try to marry it to the parts
that I like from my engine for my next game, which will have more
multiplayer communication needs. My current game [1] was written about
95% in Lua, but is pretty much done and stable at this point.

On further reflection, though, a lack of a Windows version (or other
desktop version) would be a pain. I specifically ported my library to
Windows to make development easier, faster, and generally better.
Especially with Lua development it's awesome to be able to go in and
edit a file and immediately reload it in the game without having to jump
through hoops to get a new build on the device. So you might want to
consider that port just as a development feature, even if no one
actually ever sells a Windows version of their game.

Tim

[1] https://market.android.com/details?id=com.quickcharge.hamster.free

On 7/10/2011 3:28 PM, Patrick Meehan wrote:
> We just launched an open beta of Moai Cloud, a free to use platform
> for deploying Lua scripts as RESTful web services. It runs on AWS and
> is powered by a Mongrel2, 0MQ, MongoDB stack. The project is still in
> its infancy, but please check it out if you're interested:
> www.getmoai.com.
>
> There's also Moai SDK, an open source C++/Lua based game engine. It
> isn't required for using the cloud service, but if mobile game
> development is your thing you may want to check it out too. You can
> download cross-platform binaries for Windows, OSX, iOS and Android
> from getmoai.com. The source tree is at
> https://github.com/moai/moai-beta. There's a contributed Linux build
> and 64-bit compatibility patch that we'll be folding into the main
> project soon. The SDK is released under the CPAL license.
> Contributions and feedback are always welcome. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick
>