From: seebs@... (Peter Seebach)
Date: 2007-07-14T12:37:35+09:00
Subject: Re: I need serious help!

In message <b37300880707132032h661052acr1f1fd171b4a314b2@mail.gmail.com>, "Gregory Brown" write
s:
>I'm totally out of the loop with the gaming community, but you're
>probably right on this.  Instead of trying to go from the ground up, I
>wonder if a good approach would be to find a highly scriptable game
>with a friendly modding community.
>
>This seems to me like it'd let someone get their feet wet without
>knowing a ton of theory, and work with powerful engines.  I've never
>actually built  non-trivial mods before though, so I'm not sure if
>that's good advice or not.

If you wanna script games, learn Lua.  It's used in:
	Baldur's Gate (I and II)
	Neverwinter Nights
	Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War
	Angband
	World of Warcraft

... and probably many, many, others.  Those are just the ones where I've
actually written Lua programs.

-s