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