Re: LUA training for Game Design

[Henrique Becker <henriquebecker91@...>]

Lua, not LUA.
Lua (LOO-ah) is a brazilian word for moon.

2010/8/9, Peter Miller <SoulLifter@ca.rr.com>:
> Hi all,
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> 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.
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> Any advice?
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> Thanks!
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