There was an article written by one of the developers that came out last month, about how 7 people built that game in 12 weeks, which is incredibly fast. The proof of that is Crimson: Steam Pirates, published by Bungie Aerospace recently. Lua is reasonably easy to understand, so you get animators and producers and artists who are able to contribute to the game, and you're able to iterate very quickly. What that does is really open up the whole game development process, because anyone can look at any piece of technology and understand what it's doing. You want the same guy who is writing the front-end code to be able to go and look at the back-end, and say, 'okay, if I'm making this change, if the player's uploading this data, if this content is coming down to the device, what does that code look like on both sides?' You're staying in the same zone you're not changing languages between different platforms all the time. The goal of Moai was to democratise that somewhat, and bring people to use one language - which is Lua - both on the front-end and also on the back-end. I think he felt that it was multiple silos of development: so you have one team working on iOS, one team working on Android, another team working on the back-end systems, all working with different tools and different languages. Patrick ran a very successful game development studio at Groundspeak, and they had a top 5 app on iPhone and Android.

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