Open Source Lua Game Development Frameworks

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Arcan is a portable and fully scriptable frontend for launching games, emulators and other full-screen applications in a visual appealing way, as seamlessly as possible. The API is sufficiently complete for other projects as well, e.g. rapid game prototyping (both 2D and 3D). Note that we have left sourceforge (thanks for all the spam). The source is hosted on github ( http://www.github.com/letoram/arcan ) and the downloads on bintray https://bintray.com/letoram/arcan-main/

Radius Engine is a Lua script-based real-time 2D graphics engine designed for rapidly prototyping games. Built on top of SDL and OpenGL, games made with Radius Engine are portable to both Windows and Linux.

INSTEAD was designed to interpret the games that are the mix of visual novels, text quests and classical 90'ss quests.

A Chien2D é voltada ao desenvolvimento de jogos 2D em C/C++, utilizada pelo autor em cursos de programação de jogos. A biblioteca é multiplataforma, rodando em Windows, Linux e Mac OS X.

CorEngine is a work in progress, OpenGL graphics powered 3D game engine designed to help independent game developers with quick prototyping and game/virtual environment creation. The engine supports a standard set of features, like skeletal animation, post processing, Lua/C programming, physics powered by Bullet Physics, GUI and 2D/3D Audio.

Gamudo Game Framework

Lunar aims to be a cross-platform engine geared towards developing two-dimensional video games. In addition to Lua-based scripting, planned features include support for interchangeable graphics, image and audio libraries, and a fully-featured editor.

This project use OGRE3D graphic module, Havok Physics, RakNet and OpenAL. Make a MMO game framework.

Pi64 is not an emulator, it just mimics the 80's classic 8bit computers with SDL based graphics and RtAudio based sound. The fullscreen editor for shell and the built-in program editor help you create your own programs and games. Programming language is LUA, but Pi64 is open for any library plugins written in your favourite language. Source was written in pure C, so should compile on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux without issues.

The RockMUD project is a new MUD codebase written in C and Lua. The goal of RockMUD is to create a stable C MUD engine that can be easily expanded and customized using the Lua scripting language. RockMUD is based off of SocketMUD by Brian Graverson.

SDL Framework (SDLFW) SDLFW is a cross-platform framework from the powerful SDL library to create your own 2D games with the Lua programming language. It's easy-to-use, free, open-source, and works on Windows and Linux.

Scrupp is a cross-platform 2D engine which uses SDL and OpenGL for visualization. It is controlled by external Lua scripts. The core supports various image, sound, music and font formats. The hard work is done by plugins written in Lua.

The next level of Warzone 2100. This fork expands on the retail release in a different direction than the resurrection project. New scripting engine, new file structure, and fully skinable GUI are but a few things that will be headed your way.