Top 9 C++ Luajit Projects

love

258 4,341 9.6 C++

LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

Project mention: Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-17

I've built a few games with my son over the years. The fun part for us was all about fast iteration, and then laughing at the bugs together.
There are some other recommendations here for how to approach 3d, and he is specifically asking for 3d -- but I want to put in one more pitch for 2d: the fun-to-tedium ratio can be much higher.
I wonder if you could spend some time prototyping some of his ideas in LÖVE https://love2d.org/ -- if you show him the smallest sketch of something working, he might have an idea about what to add next.
Many years ago, on a flight, we went from 0 to game before we landed (with no experience).

sol2

20 3,935 3.9 C++

Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:

Project mention: Any tips for how to make moddable games? | /r/gamedev | 2023-05-20

As someone said, make the game data-driven is a good first step but I will say, also have some sort of way to add additional game logic. For C++ games, lua is really easy to embed the interpreter in your C++ binary, read in the files from a directory (like /mods) with the C++ filesystem api new in C++17, and it's very easy to use SoL to write an API for lua specific to your game. Many games use lua in this way and it's probably the most common mod path setup.

WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
neoGFX

2 524 8.9 C++

Cross-platform GPU-oriented C++ application/game framework
MWSE

5 108 9.7 C++

Morrowind Script Extender v2
lqt

0 69 0.0 C++

Lua Binding for Qt5
Ashita-v4beta

1 49 6.9 C++

Ashita v4 Beta release repository. Contains the current, most up-to-date, publicly released version of the Ashita v4 beta.
toml.lua

1 33 4.0 C++

TOML v1.0.0 parser and serializer for Lua. Powered by toml++.
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
parasol

2 11 7.3 C++

Vector graphics engine and app framework for Windows and Linux, supporting SVG (by parasol-framework)
programming-language-benchmarks

2 2 0.0 C++

Benchmarks for programming languages (by andrewmcwattersandco)

Project mention: Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-15

The EDGAR API bulk data is similar in nature, albeit in JSON instead.[1]
[1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/programming-language...

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).