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Lua book -- Game Development with Lua

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Good intro if you want to make games with Lua.

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Title: Game development with Lua
Authors: Paul Schuytema and Mark Manyen
Year: 2005
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Lua is used for many popular games, including World of Warcraft and Roblox. If you want to learn Lua for game programming, this will get you started.

Page 109 starts you on a simple asteroids game.
Page 205 starts you on a blackjack game.
Page 211 goes into using C++ to write a computer opponent for tic-tac-toe. This is the chapter that covers artificial intelligence.

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QA76.73Lua

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