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Kling, How do I get started with Lua? I know very little about programing.
What's the good place to start?
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pico-8 comes with a txt with the basic cheatsheet
but I you want to learn lua codeacademy is the best place
edit: wait, forget it, codeacademy doesn't have lua
zep left this site on the txt file however, so you may want to look here
also, to read the txt document I recomend using notepad++, the windows notepad is terrible.
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For a real quick crash course in Lua it's hard to beat
http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/
though note that the whole LUA api/stdlib is not available for you in PICO-8.
You'll have an idea though when running your cart and seeing "_____ is nil."
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I also find Rosetta Code very handy for picking up languages, and the Lua examples helped me while using Pico8.
Was this a Ludum Dare entry?
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Kling is in Pico-Tournament #1
You got 2nd to Benjamin Soule
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