I got a Playstation Portable for Christmas one year in middle school. I had played my share of flash games over the years, and was particularly hooked on the To

I got a Playstation Portable for Christmas one year in middle school. I had played my share of flash games over the years, and was particularly hooked on the Tower Defense genre thanks to Flash Element TD and Desktop TD. The PSP didn't have any TD games, so I decided to make my own. The first step to developing native apps for the PSP (in C++) was a 1GB+ download of Cygwin, an SDK, and a toolchain. It was early 2007, and my even-then-outdated internet connection wouldn't have it. Enter LuaPlayer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_Player http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_Player I started messing around with this and teaching myself Lua. I wrote a variety of simple little games and proofs-of-concept, and eventually made my tower defense game. I've had a soft spot for Lua ever since. Neat kicker: the guys who made Desktop TD and Flash Element TD later paired up and founded what has become Kixeye.