User Created Games In Home?

Lua (wiki) is a fun scripting language used across the World in games as diverse as Crysis and mods for Half Life 2, alongside various applications. Indeed, we’ve even messed about with Lua on the PSP some time back. However, we’ve learned tonight that Lua is included with the Home Development Kit (HDK) profiled here, and is powering Home’s arcade and communal games, according to the link.

So, aside from the HDK, we’re hoping that at some point Sony opens up Lua for individuals, meaning they could in theory create their own minigames within Home. Sony have been fairly open about user-created content since Yaroze and the YaBasic interpreter that came with the PS2 in Europe (not to mention mods in Unreal Tournament III), so let’s cross our fingers and wait and see.