Shards Online Lua Modding
This week, Citadel Studios posted some links on Twitter for prospective Shards Online modders.
Shards Online is a online sandbox RPG, heavily inspired by Ultima Online and similar MMOs, that is being created by Citadel Studios. Players can run their own shards by hosting their own world, similar to how Minecraft users can create their own world, or by paying Citadel or a third party to host their server for them. Custom shards can be created through scripting and, given the links provided, it appears Shards will use Lua for this customization.
https://twitter.com/shardsonline/status/482985707955564544
https://twitter.com/shardsonline/status/482985770165080064
Additional Resources
The official Lua site is definitely the place to start, but there are many quality Lua tutorials. Here are some additional ones, to get you started:
- Lua: Getting Started
- Lua for Beginners
- The Crash Course to Lua
- Beginner Lua Tutorials (on YouTube)
- 5 Free E-Books and Tutorials on Lua
Any other resources you guys have found to learn Lua, or for more advanced users?
We got a great response from Shards Online:
https://twitter.com/ShardsOnline/status/484770388845821952
Here is another tweet from Shards, announcing some tutorials:
https://twitter.com/larianstudios/status/485092559086452737