To make your own games, you need to give the computer easy instructions to follow in a language it can understand – code. ... Lua and C-sharp is used to create online and video games.

In this video tutorial, Marmalade shows developers how to build a simple 2D game for iOS, Android and Windows using the Lua scripting language with the Marmalade SDK.

If you're not familiar, Lua is a powerful scripting language that modders use across all sorts of games to make them do buckwild things. It's a huge part of the Morrowind modding scene, for instance.

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