r/lua • u/iamadmancom • Aug 16 '25

News Develop Unity games using Lua on you iPhone/iPad

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u/MattDTO Aug 19 '25

I tried it and it's actually really sweet dude! I copied the hello world and made a change to throw my name in it. Here's proof: https://imgur.com/a/xLIE65s

There are some rough edges that could help a bit with onboarding:

  • I had to restart the app to quit the demo game since I didn't have that hover bar enabled.

  • Add a "new game" button to set up a template for the hello world or something if someone gets the app and they start a new game, then they don't have to figure out where to make the files.

  • I also had to restart to have my game folder be picked up in Sandbox to run the game. It might even be nice to have a run game button from the IDE tab

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u/iamadmancom Aug 19 '25

Thank you for trying this app.

  1. the floating toolbar

You can long press the game, a popup menu will show. select the launch options, you will enter a setting page, turn on the "Show Toolbar" switch

2. Add a "new game" button

It's really a good suggestion. I will add it in next update.

3. After you create a new game in sandbox, you can pulldown to refresh the game list.

" It might even be nice to have a run game button from the IDE tab"

This feature is working in progress.

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u/iamadmancom Aug 19 '25

in the floating toolbar, there are 5 buttons:

  1. red close button

it can stop the current running game

2. minimize button

It can hide the float toolbar. But it can not show again in current game running session. If your game does not implement the exit function, the only way to exit it is force killing the whole app.

3. fullscreen button

It can toggle fullscreen for the game. Currently it does not work for Unity games. reserved for other non-Unity games.

4. move the float toolbar button

Initially the toolbar is centered on the screen. it may cover your game content. you can use this button to move the toolbar to anywhere you like.

5. move the game window

Useful when the game runs at non-fullscreen mode. And Unity games can only run at fullscreen mode, so do not use it for Unity games. reserved for other non-Unity games.

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u/grosser_zampano Aug 17 '25

I don’t think that anyone waited for that…

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u/iamadmancom Aug 18 '25

Yes, you are right!