Open Source Lua Game Development Frameworks

Spring is a versatile 3D RTS game engine. Using extensively Lua for scripting game-specific code to make nearly every aspect of the engine customizable, from GUI, to unit AI, to pathfinding.

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Vanda Engine is a free and open source 3D game engine for Windows. I'm developing this game engine for years to help the students and other enthusiast learn game engine programming and develop 3D games for free. While giant companies are building game engines with huge budget and a lot of manpower, I'm developing this free 3D game engine alone with no budget. I have published step by step tutorials about Vanda Engine, 3D tools, and COLLADA format: https://vanda3d.org/tutorials/ Please follow Vanda Engine on Facebook to be informed about what I'm doing: http://facebook.com/vandaengine Check out Vanda Engine website to see how Vanda Engine is getting work done: https://vanda3d.org/ It will be appreciated if you donate to this project so I can buy required software and books and hire people to produce free 2D and 3D assets and educational videos and tutorials for this game engine: https://vanda3d.org/donate/

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.

Panther game engine is being developed as part of a class on game engine development at Chapman University 2009/2010/2011. Development continues through December 2011.

OpenBlox lets you make games with a built-in physics engine, Lego-like building blocks, and a scripting language called Lua. Once you've made a game with OpenBlox, you can pack it into a single file with one mouse click, and share your game with anyone you want.

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

Addon for GarrysMod 10 which allows players to temporary turn into ragdolls.

LGCK Builder provides a unique development environment that can be easily used by novice and seasoned game creators to get the best results quickly. Our approach is different because the philosophy is geared toward simplicity and re-usability. Quick 5 minute tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN3gkZWr-PM

IrrRPG Builder is an simple tool to create RPG games. Check IrrRPG Builder 2.0w, our updated WebGL version, at: https://github.com/andresjesse/irbw

Play the popular card game Mau Mau (similar to UNO®) against the computer or over the network with your friends. It consists of a highly configurable stand-alone server and a client based on Qt4/5. The client's development is now ceased and in search of a new maintainer, transforming it from a worse and annoying showstopper to a usable and fun to play one. There are binaries available for Windows, Debian 7/8, Ubuntu and Arch Linux as well as ebuilds for Gentoo. See Files section for details.

Zen Worlds is an object oriented C++ virtual worlds / MMO game engine framework. This project includes Zen Engine game engine client, Zen Enterprise, an Enterprise Service Bus, and a C++ Application Server, and Zen Studio, a game development IDE.

IsoRealms Spindizzy and IsoRealms Engine is now developed as "IsoRealms" on GitHub, and can be found at the following location: https://github.com/MartinBrentnall/IsoRealms The SourceForge SVN repository is no longer maintained.

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.

OGRE/PhysX-based game engine.

The AdventureMap peripherals addon for ComputerCraft gives players the ability to create stunning adventure maps with custom teleports, block spawning, explosions, and much, much more.

The AlphaGenesis project aims to create both a high quality, strategy oriented, SNES style turn based RPG, and an engine for building top down perspective 2D games. I have been writing the engine in my spare time over the past few years. It currently contains a game client and map editor. It is mostly complete as an engine, but there are a few features I still plan to add. AlphaGenesis is being developed with the intention of being cross platform and easily extensible, so that people without much programming experience will be able to add content to games with little effort. I am pushing to get a playable demo out by the end of January 2014.

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.

Core Distribution for SB Servers for McBuilds? Community, Contains SVN Builds from various Garry's Mod Add-on Developers

Despair Text Adventure Engine is an engine for old school text based adventure games consisting of a client and an editor.

Eye of God (EOG) is a generic component based framework for application development in particular videogames. It provides a way to build game engines in a structured and robust manner.

Gamudo Game Framework