Factorio Music Video as demonstration of Lua's Speed

[Andrew Starks <andrew@...>]

I've waxed poetic about Factorio in the past. It's an RTS game that is about building huge factories to launch a rocket, while you're fighting if indigenous creatures that hate your pollution.

Someone took the time to repurpose the factories in the game, taking advantage of the newly-added colored lights to make a video player:

https://youtu.be/mgfwwqwxdxY

Some background info is here:

http://www.pcgamer.com/factorios-final-form-revealed-an-enormous-machine-that-plays-sandstorm-by-darude/

The movie import script is here:

https://github.com/DaveMcW/factorio-movie-maker

His announcement: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=37490

Lua (not LuaJIT)  is used extensively through the game. There's a discussion on why not LuaJIT here: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/3p1iqq/friday_facts_108_unexpected_features/

The video player is an impressive hack!

Andrew