A Lua Language File for Notepad++

Posted by David Carrigg on March 21st, 2011 in Tools

We all love using Lua to write custom scripts for our game objects, and we also love using Notepad++ to edit those scripts. It basically has everything you'd want in a text editor, plus some.

After hunting on the internet for a bit, we realized that there wasn't a good Lua language file for Notepad++ (at least, we couldn't find one). So we decided to take a little bit of time and create a Lua language file which supports the auto complete feature of Notepad++.

Using this you'll get awesome dropdown boxes as you type built in Lua functions. It'll also show you what parameters you can pass into the functions, as well as the documentation for them.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

To use it, follow these steps:
1. Download the LuaLangFile.zip from the link above
2. Extract the lua.xml file into the Notepad++ installation directory, under plugins/APIs. (For me this is in C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\APIs)
3. Open up Notepad++, and go into Settings->Preferences. Under the Backup/Auto-Completion tab, make sure to check "Enable auto-completion on each input", as well as "Function parameters hint on input"

There are a few issues with it at the moment. Firstly, every function is listed as returning void. I couldn't really come up with a good solution to functions which could return different types of data, so I left them all as is. Second, the descriptions for functions with a "." in them (like, math.abs) don't show up. I'm not exactly sure why this is.

If anyone else wants to add to the language file, feel free to post new revisions here or send us an email at info@retroaffect.com as we'll post updates here in the blog.

Happy Scripting!

PAX East Trailer Premiere

Posted by Peter Jones on March 14th, 2011 in Snapshot

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Wow. After a solid 13 hours of what I like to call "catch-up" sleep, I'm ready to reflect on how amazing of a show PAX East was for us. There was no greater joy then seeing thousands of gamers sit and spend some time with our game. I think it's safe to say that the response was overwhelmingly positive.

Without further adieu, I'd like to share with our patient public our brand new trailer. In it, we have a few clips of the demo we had at PAX East, along with a few more surprises. We hope you enjoy it! And from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for all of your support.

PS If you haven't already, make sure you like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter! We're giving away free t-shirts to some lucky fans this Wednesday!

From GDC to PAX

Posted by Peter Jones on March 10th, 2011 in General

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Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Last week, Kyle and I ventured out west to another great year at the game developers conference. It gave us a chance to catch up with all of our game developing friends, and also a chance to show off all that we've done in the past year. We handed out some buttons, shared some videos and did some impromptu impressions.

Just one week later, I find myself sitting on the expo floor for PAX East, gearing up for what I hope will be a phenomenal conference for us. For the first time since E3 in 2009, we'll have a playable version of Snapshot on the show floor. So if you're going, come check it out! Our table is in the Boston Indie Showcase section near the back of the expo hall. If you come, not only can you play Snapshot but you can snag some exclusive swag.

Don't worry! If you couldn't make it to PAX is year, when we get back we have some surprises for you too. PLUS we're giving away a bunch of awesome tshirts to a bunch of our lucky Facebook Fans and Twitter followers next week.

So if you're coming to PAX we'll see you soon, and if not, come back to retroaffect.com soon!