Small Team Huge Game and Lua

Brian Cronin Unknown Worlds Entertainment Natural Selection 2 is a sequel to a popular Half Life mod that has been in development for about 4 years. Lua has been used extensively throughout the project. All gameplay code in the project is written in Lua which provides some interesting advantages over a static language. I will go over the following topics: Object oriented programming without a class hierarchy through the use of mixins in Lua The Decoda Lua IDE and debugger Detailed script error messages combined with a simple viewer tool allows us to see a snapshot of the environment when the error occurred User submitted Lua code mods bug fixes and optimizations,

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