Licence and thanks

Luawe

Luawe is the scripting language of the Wayfarer Engine. The language's implementation (its compiler, its machine and its libraries) is part of the engine, written by LunarSide.

Copyright © 2026 LunarSide LLC. All rights reserved.

The scripts you write are yours. They belong to the level they are in, and to whoever made it.

The examples in this guide and in the game's editor are there to be used: copy them into your levels and change them as you like.

The names Luawe, Wayfarer Engine, LunarSide and Pathfinder, and their logos, belong to LunarSide LLC.

Thanks to Lua

Luawe would not exist without Lua, the language designed and written by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo and Waldemar Celes at PUC-Rio. Luawe's syntax, its tables and metatables, its coroutines, its string patterns and the shape of its libraries all follow Lua's design, and its name says so.

Luawe contains no code of Lua: it was written from nothing, and it is not made, checked or endorsed by Lua.org or PUC-Rio. "Lua" and its logo belong to Lua.org.

Lua is free software, given out under the MIT licence. In thanks, and because this guide describes a language that follows Lua's, here is its notice:

Copyright (C) 1994-2025 Lua.org, PUC-Rio.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

This guide

The guide is set in three typefaces, each under the SIL Open Font License: Bebas Neue (Dharma Type), Fredoka (The Fredoka Project Authors) and Space Mono (The Space Mono Project Authors). Their licences are in the site's fonts folder.