Introduction

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Introduction

This book is unusual because it covers game programming in three different scripting languages in three separate sections. Python, Lua, and Ruby are wonderful languages used all over the world to build efficient, flexible, scalable, and well-integrated programs and systems.

For the same reasons that these languages have been great choices for other projects, Python, Lua, and Ruby also are great for making games . This discovery, in fact, was made over a decade ago. Chances are you've played a computer game that utilized one of these languages during development. You may be currently working through game levels that were designed with Lua, or playing on a graphics engine prototyped in Python, or using an Internet ladder developed with Ruby.

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