Session Name: | Lua Scripting in Game Production |
Speaker(s): | Steven Collins, Paul Du Bois, Jeremy Gordon, Roberto Ierusalimschy, RJ Mical, Bret Mogilefsky, Allan Murphy, Jonathan Shaw, Don Veca |
Company Name(s): | Kore Virtual Machines, Double Fine, Department of Behavior and Logic, University of PUC Rio, Sony, SCEA, Microsoft, Lionhead Studios, Sledgehammer Games/Activision |
Track / Format: | Production |
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Overview: |
This full day tutorial aims to provide a comprehensive technical overview of the use of Lua script and the Lua Virtual Machine in modern game engines, with a particular emphasis on the challenges of deploying a scripting solution on current console hardware. We will open with an introduction to Lua, followed by 3 case studies of Lua usage in shipped games, and close with a more technical discussion of optimizing Lua for game consoles. 10 - 10:10am: Opening Remarks Speaker: Steve Collins (Course Organizer), Kore Virtual Machine 10:10 - 11am: History of Lua & History of Lua in Games Speakers: Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC Rio & Bret Mogilefsky, SCEA Roberto, the creator of Lua, will talk about the history of Lua and how the design goals for the language have made it attractive for game production. Bret will describe the industry's first usage of Lua in games, in the Grim Fandango engine. 11 - 11:20am COFFEE BREAK 11:20am - 11:55am (35 mins): Lua for Game Production Speaker: Steve Collins, Kore Virtual Machines Steve will give a quick overview of Lua and how to use it within a modern game engine including binding to the engine, memory management and garbage collection approaches, debugging, plus common patterns including object models, state machines, events/callbacks. 11:55 - 12:30pm (35 mins): Lua in Fable II Speaker: Jonathan Shaw, Lionhead Jonathan will talk about AI and behavior scripting using Lua and Lua related tools in Fable II. 12:30 - 2pm LUNCH 2 - 2:40pm (40 mins): Optimizing Lua for Game Consoles Speakers: Allan Murphy, Microsoft Allan will discuss strategies for optimization of the Lua VM on modern game consoles including topics such as instruction cache optimizations for the Lua interpreter on in-order Power PC cores. 2:40 - 3:20pm (40 mins): Lua in Brutal Legend Speaker:Paul Du Bois, DoubleFine Paul will discuss use of Lua in DoubleFine's latest work, focusing in particular on mission scripting and testing. 3:20 - 4pm (40 mins): Lua and Adaptive Audio Speaker:Don Veca, Sledgehammer Games/Activision Don will describe the general use of Lua to create adaptive audio systems, showing sophisticated binding of procedural audio effects to game events. 4 - 4:20pm COFFEE BREAK 4:20 - 5pm (40 mins): Lua on the PS3 Speaker: R.J. Mical, Sony Computer Entertainment America R&D RJ will cover issues relating to implementing Lua on the PS3 and specifically examine the potential of executing Lua script on an SPU.. 5 - 5:40pm (40 mins): Panel Discussion: Is Lua the ultimate game scripting language? A panel discussion with all speakers presented and moderated by Jeremy Gordon (founder Secret Level). This will include a twitter feed element: audience members may ask questions by twitter; the feed will be displayed live and the moderator can choose questions from the feed. 5:40 - 6pm: Q&A/Wrapup |