And for artists who are looking to hop the fence and try making games themselves, the LÖVE engine, which utilises the easy-to-learn Lua programming language, could be a fantastic way to get started.

If you don't want to learn Java there are alternative SDKs for Android. Corona uses the Lua programming language and it is ideal for writing mobile games.

Lua, although not as popular as other game development languages, is included on our list of most user-friendly programming languages for game development due to its ease of use.

Back in 2004, Telltale Games developed an in-house game engine called the Telltale Tool. Built using Lua programming language, this engine supported every Telltale release for over a decade, from ...

I haven’t talked about programming languages for a while so here goes: We start this week with the free, open source (MIT License) Lua language. First released in 1993, Lua (which means “moon ...

Another language used in games is C-sharp – this is used to create the popular game, Among Us, where players hunt for impostors.

But perhaps most mysterious of all: Part of Flame’s code was written in the Lua programming language, a simple language used almost exclusively by video game programmers.