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Dev tools · May 21, 2012

My first Open Source project -- Teaching my son Lua

Lua Text Adventure Engine. Contribute to shawndumas/adventure.lua development by creating an account on GitHub.

My first Open Source project -- Teaching my son Lua launched on May 21, 2012 with 33 votes, #52 of 435 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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adventure.lua is a Lua-based text adventure engine hosted on GitHub. It was created as an open-source project to teach Lua programming. The tool is designed for developers interested in building text adventure games using Lua. It allows contributors to collaborate on the project's development through GitHub's platform.

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