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Learn Lua
- Defold uses Lua 5.1 http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/
- Progamming in Lua (best Lua book - buy a physical copy of latest edition)
- Learn Lua in a Single Video + Related Cheat Sheet
- Official Lua Language Reference
- Learn X in Y Minutes Where X=Lua
- Lua Short Reference
- A Functional Introduction to Lua
- Lua Users Wiki
- https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lua_Programming
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lua
- http://lua-users.org/files/wiki_insecure/users/thomasl/luarefv51single.pdf
- Lua Missions (Koans)
- http://kiki.to/blog/2014/03/30/a-guide-to-authoring-lua-modules/
- http://lua-users.org/wiki/DetectingUndefinedVariables
- http://notebook.kulchenko.com/programming/lua-good-different-bad-and-ugly-parts
- http://tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/
- https://www.lua.org/gems/
Tools
Lua Libraries
- Jumper - fast pathfinding for grid based games
- Knife - collection of Lua micro modules
- lume - Lua helper functions for gamedev
- Vivid - Color math, manipulation, conversion
- binser - Customizable Lua Serializer
- Busted - Lua unit testing
- Telescope - test library for Lua
- luassert extends Lua’s built-in assertions to provide additional tests and the ability to create your own
- json-lua
- coil - A tiny cooperative threading module for Lua. Coil is based around coroutines, allowing many cooperative threads to run simultaneously.
- flux - Tweening library
- tick - delayed function calls
- translate / localize - say is a simple string key/value store for i18n or ay other case where you want namespaced strings.
- https://github.com/kikito/i18n.lua localization
- https://github.com/kikito/inspect.lua human readable lua tables
OO in Lua
- middleclass
- 30 lines library for object orientation in Lua
- class.lua
- https://github.com/rxi/classic/
Collections of Lua Snippets
- https://github.com/mirven/lua_snippets/tree/master/lua
- https://github.com/blitmap/lua-snippets
- https://github.com/jonstoler/lua-snip
- https://github.com/XuJiandong/lua-recipe
- https://github.com/wcbubel/lua-stuffs
Websites / Communities / Events About Lua
Lua Style Guides
Other Lua game engines
Tutorials etc. written for these can be adapted to Defold
- http://www.amulet.xyz/
- https://love2d.org/
- https://github.com/moai/moai-dev
- More: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5053134/what-is-a-good-game-engine-that-uses-lua
General gamedev resources
- http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html
- http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers/
- http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/07/linear-algebra-for-game-developers-part-1/
- http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2007/mariogravity.shtml
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral
- http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Physics_Guide
- https://love2d.org/wiki/Free_Game_Resources
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