Developer Rinnegatamante updated Lua Player Plus Vita to revision 4, and released Raycast 3D Engine for Lua Player Plus.

What is Lua Player Plus?

Lua is a scripting (programming) language. Historically on the console hacking scene is is considered to be simpler to learn than compiled languages such as C++ for homebrew programming. Lua is a great way to get into programming without having to learn all the ropes at once. Lua Player Plus lets you run your Lua-written games on the PS Vita.

This is not to say you can’t program awesome homebrews with Lua. For those who doubt this I strongly suggest you have a look at G.D.P. below (note: G.D.P. is *not* using Raycast3D!):

Lua Player Plus will let you run your Lua code and homebrews. The Raycast 3D Engine will let you create some basic 3D games with ray casting technology:

Raycast 3D for Vita offers the following features (from the author):

• Different tile size maps
• Automated camera and player position management
• Support for huge maps (pratically there aren’t limitations)
• Support for sky rendering and floor rendering
• Automated minimap renderer with player position
• Textured walls support
• Wall Collisions check
• Shading support
• Bullet system (Ray casting with returning values)

Additionally, Lua Player Plus r4 brings some bug fixes and sound support for PS Vita

Download Lua Player Plus & Raycast3D for PS Vita

You can download both applications on the Developer’s website here.

To install & run, please note that you will need to have a PS Vita running  firmware 3.60 with the HENkaku hack. To install HENkaku, please check our PS Vita CFW page.

Looking for more? We have a full list of Emulators for the PS Vita, an up to date list of Homebrews for the PS Vita, and an All in one guide for Vita 3.60 describing everything you can do with your hacked PS Vita.

source: Rinnegatamante on /talk