Cross-platform development tool company Marmalade has launched Marmalade Quick, a rapid application development kit to complement its SDK.

The new tool gives developers the benefits of using fast scripting language Lua, to create apps for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows, Mac desktop and some smart TVs.

The development kit also includes the ZeroBrane Studio IDE for authoring and debugging.

“Marmalade aims to give developers the choice to produce however they want to, so adding Lua to our existing support for C++ and HTML5 adds even more flexibility to our toolset,” said Marmalade CTO Tim Closs.

Marmalade Quick is free with all Marmalade licences but is also available under the open source MIT licence, meaning developers can modify or extend it if they wish. The core of the technology is also available as the OpenQuick project, independently of Marmalade.

The first game to be released using Marmalade Quick will be Signal to the Stars, a Marmalade Studio title due in the early part of this year.