Lua Game development

Open-source Lua projects categorized as Game development

Top 17 Lua Game development Projects

Game development
  1. BYTEPATH

    A replayable arcade shooter with a focus on build theorycrafting.

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  3. game-engine-2d

    Planimeter Game Engine 2D - LÖVE-based game engine for Lua

  4. NevermoreEngine

    ModuleScript loader with reusable and easy unified server-client modules for faster game development on Roblox

  5. NobleEngine

    A li'l game engine for Playdate.

  6. 2DGD_F0TH

    [CC BY-NC-SA] A compendium of the community knowledge on game design and development

    Project mention: 2DGD_F0TH A compendium of the community knowledge on game design and development | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-06
  7. NDS-Homebrew-Development

    My research for developing on the Nintendo DS

  8. Concord

    A feature-complete ECS library (by Keyslam-Group)

  9. CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

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  10. defold-scene3d

    Scene3D is a collection of scripts, materials and tools to help you develop 3D games with the Defold game engine.

  11. pecs

    Entity Component System (ECS) for PICO-8 & Picotron

  12. vector.lua

    a simple vector library for Lua based on the PVector class from processing

  13. playdate-unlicensed-paddle-game-tutorial

    A tutorial that shows you how to make a Pong clone on the Playdate

  14. lua-top-down-multiplayer

    A simple top-down multiplayer game built using LÖVE

  15. OpenBilgi

    OpenBilgi is the open source version for roguelike trivia game: bilgi

  16. dragon_demo_platformer

    PICO-8 Fooling and Learning

  17. vanta-race

    Vanta Race mod for SB 1.4.4

  18. retro_pico_platformer

    A project to create, polish and publish a #pico8 #platformer game made to mimic the feel of the nes era games.

  19. DroidSpot

    DroidSpot game for Windows (Demo)

  20. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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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).

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What are some of the best open-source Game development projects in Lua? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 BYTEPATH 1,445
2 game-engine-2d 739
3 NevermoreEngine 468
4 NobleEngine 455
5 2DGD_F0TH 410
6 NDS-Homebrew-Development 288
7 Concord 264
8 defold-scene3d 160
9 pecs 68
10 vector.lua 53
11 playdate-unlicensed-paddle-game-tutorial 24
12 lua-top-down-multiplayer 22
13 OpenBilgi 12
14 dragon_demo_platformer 9
15 vanta-race 1
16 retro_pico_platformer 1
17 DroidSpot 0

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