Tutorials

Each tutorial builds on the game you made in Make your own game, and ends with something working you can keep. Code blocks are complete: paste them into a new file in your game's scripts/ folder and save while the game runs.

1. Walk around: how the player works, tuning how it moves, and shaping the level.
2. Break things: throw balls, knock towers over, and shatter glass.
3. Script a pickup: coins to collect, a score on screen, and your own Lua binding in C++.
4. Add sound: materials, impact sounds and a pickup chime.

Coming next: invite a friend, playing your game together over the network, once player replication for script games lands (#28).

Want more after these? The cookbook has recipes for everything from your own controls and cameras to pathfinding, flocking and inverse kinematics. games/first_lua_game/ is a whole small game (break the targets, with a timer and a results screen) in one Lua file, with its own walkthrough.