Open Source Lua Software Development Software

LOVE is a free 2D game engine which enables easy game creation in Lua.

Lixoo is a extensible, fast and small 2D point'n'click adventure game engine. It features the engine itself and an IDE that let you create full-featured games just by writing the essential code of the game.

Gojo is a 2D game engine that permits rapid game development, like FENIX, but uses Lua. The engine is written completely in C and uses SDL for graphics, sound, input, and networking. It comes with standard libraries for common game needs such as sprites.

Lienzo is a gtk-Canvas and Lua program to work in geometry. Unlike others like Cinderella, Cabri, DrGeo, etc... this one focuses in algorithms, not in static figures. the lua interface allows to work with programable objects.

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.

NiL is a modular multi-purpose gaming engine including a multiplayer worm game a little like quake, except it's 2d and a little like worms except it's realtime.

OpenGDK is short for Open Game Development Kit. It's supposed to be a plug-in BASED (it's different from OGRE. OGRE is plug-in friendly), cross-platform, open source, general purpose (2D, 3D, client, server, editor), game development kit.

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.

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.

GUI IDE for developing games with the Stratagus engine.

Mac OS X and Windows OpenGL 3D Engine tools, content and code to create games and applications. Newton physics, OpenAL sound with OGG Vorbis, Lua, Revolution, written in C.