Chapter 1. Basics of the Game Engine

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Preparing a basic file structure for the game engine

• Making a stack

• Making a queue

• Making a prioritized queue

• Extending ipairs for use in sparse arrays

• Creating Lua modules

• Handling errors with pcall, xpcall, and assert

• Using Lua with existing projects written in C/C++

• Getting LuaSDL for libSDL 1.2

• Designing the main application loop with LuaSDL