[createuniverses]

I love live coding environments, and yours looks really fun.

Being so easy to embed, Lua is perfect for basing a live coding environment on. Here is one I made that is also based on Lua, as well as an assortment of other embeddable languages: https://github.com/createuniverses/praxis

Being able to change the universe/game while its running is why I made this.

[technomancy]

Wow, this is very cool. It shares a lot of the underlying motivation I had in making my own game, but it's much more abstract--I wanted to make it a game specifically in order to get my kids interested, but the same underlying sense of fluidity and hackability is what I'm trying to convey in my game.

That feeling is what can make programming particularly exhilirating and rewarding, and I'm hoping to capture it in the medium of a space game whereas your project seems to be more about exploring programming for the sake of programming and seeing where it takes you.

FWIW my future plans do include embedding other languages in the game. Right now it's just Lua (and Unix, to a degree), but I'm hoping to make it so that you can discover other civilizations built on wildly different technology--at least Scheme and Forth; possibly a DOS-like system thrown in there for giggles depending on how much work it turns out to be. At first you interact with these OSes as they are installed in space stations you encounter, but eventually you learn how to load them into your own ship (virtualization) so you can take advantage of certain in-game technologies built around them.