On 22/01/2015 11:45 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
It's not a terrible justification for getting into programming. But writing games is (almost always) a terrible way to start programming.
However, modifying games, I would argue, is a great way. The ComputerCraft mod for Minecraft, for example, added Lua-based control of in-game entities. It allows new developers to focus on internal game logic without being overwhelmed by the set up required to make it work.
An extreme example is DoubleFine's Hack'n'Slash, wihch exposes its underlying logic in-game (also in Lua) and provides the user with tools to modify them: http://www.hacknslashthegame.com/
Initially the player starts off by modifying globals (to, say, add or remove entities from a room, or change their movement direction), and ends with them having full access to the game (but not engine) code.
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