Designing a hit Roblox game takes more than just cool visuals—it’s about crafting engaging loops, rewarding progression, and keeping players coming back. From mastering Lua scripting to implementing ...

Everyone has at least a few games on their computer, and I would assume most of the Hackaday readership would be among the enlightened PC gamer bretheren. At this year’s DEF CON, [Tamas Szakaly] gave ...

Roblox scripting isn’t just about learning Lua—it’s about understanding how Roblox systems work and applying best practices to build clean, scalable games. From script placement to event-driven ...

I haven’t talked about programming languages for a while so here goes: We start this week with the free, open source (MIT License) Lua language. First released in 1993, Lua (which means “moon” in ...

Half-Life: Alyx was updated this week with an intriguing new feature: a new shader which simulates liquid inside of the game’s many bottles; a small but impressive immersive addition. The update also ...

The upcoming free-to-play conversion isn't the only big change coming to Turbine's Lord of the Rings Online over the next little while. In a new dev diary released yesterday on the European community ...