diff --git a/apps/twnlua/game.c b/apps/twnlua/game.c
index 6b091b3..1e2a530 100644
--- a/apps/twnlua/game.c
+++ b/apps/twnlua/game.c
@@ -14,10 +14,19 @@ void bindgen_upload_context(lua_State *L);
 
 /* require will go through physicsfs exclusively so that scripts can be in the data dir */
 /* TODO: allow for bytecode files */
+/* TODO: support .lua suffixes files? */
 static int physfs_loader(lua_State *L) {
     const char *name = luaL_checkstring(L, 1);
+
+    /* replace dots with path slashes */
+    char *path_copy = SDL_strdup(name);
+    char *ch = NULL;
+    while ((ch = SDL_strchr(path_copy, '.')))
+        *ch = '/';
+
     char *final_path = NULL;
-    SDL_asprintf(&final_path, "/scripts/%s.lua", name);
+    SDL_asprintf(&final_path, "/scripts/%s.lua", path_copy);
+    SDL_free(path_copy);
 
     if (!file_exists(final_path)) {
         char *error_message = NULL;