Thank you, Pgimeno. I literally had the cart before the horse. I was starting out to learn Lua and then noticed all of the gaming that utilized it. It never occured to me that Love had Lua embedded. Thank you for the pointer to that tutorial. I think that at my current level I will pass on trying to...

I don't how to set up Love to work with Lua. My attempt to execute your sample function replies that love is nil:

function love.draw()
love.graphics.print("Hello World", 400, 300)
end

I am on MX Linux and have installed lua 5.3 and love 11.2.2 using Synaptic from the MX repositories.