Lua

Description

Lua is a very nice and easy-to-learn scripting language specifically designed to be embeddable and able to represent complex data.

Features

• Clean syntax
• Simple, yet extremely powerful and extensible, data structure: tables (can be used as hashtables, vectors, arrays, lists, namespaces, objects, …)
• Easily embeddable into existing projects
• Lightweight
• Very fast
• Compiled to bytecode, which can be saved to a file
• Easy integrated with all languages that can load C libraries (also FreePascal
• Many other nifty things ;)
• lua makes info files obsolete

Roguelike libraries

• Astray (dungeon generation)
• rotLove, a port of rot.js (partly designed for the LÖVE2D graphics library)

Lua Engines

• T-Engine is a fully fledged roguelike engine designed to be programmed in Lua

Lua Roguelikes

Lua is probably the most popular scripting language for roguelikes. rotLove based

• Zomia (LÖVE2D)

T-Engine based

• ToME - a good part of the engine is in Lua and the game itself will be completly in Lua in the next version.
• The Veins of the Earth made using T-Engine 4
• Bone to be Wild Runs with T-Engine from ToME.
• ODE Runs with T-Engine from ToME.
• Broken Bottle made using the T-Engine4
• Run from the Shadow made using the T-Engine4
• Harrowed made using the T-Engine4

Slang based

• Ascii Wilderness made entirely using Lua 5 and the Slang graphics interpereter.

Standalone

• Seduction Quest made using LÖVE2D.
• Alchemist made using LÖVE2D.

Custom support

• Angband - between Angband 3.0.0 and 3.0.6. Since then it no longer supports Lua scripts.
• DoomRL - internally keeping all it’s data in Lua. Since 0.9.9.1 a limited form of modding using Lua is possible.
• Portralis - uses Lua a lot to create monster attacks and complex story and quest events. Many gameplay mechanics are now entirely script-based, and future versions will aim to expand it’s use even further.
• H-World - all modding in this engine is done through Lua scripts
• Necropolis (Timothy Pruett) Using Lua scripting and custom-built tools users can create new areas, classes, items, etc.

Links

• Lua homepage