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.

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.

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/

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

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

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.

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can be found at the following location: https://github.com/MartinBrentnall/IsoRealms The SourceForge SVN repository is no longer maintained.

!!! The project repositories have been migrated to https://github.com/urho3d/Urho3D !!!

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.

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

OGRE/PhysX-based game engine.

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/

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

A generic game entity manager written in C++ with Lua bindings. In early stages atm. Game Entity System - Currently Seeking Additional Project Members.

An extremely scriptable high-performance game engine suitable for building large streaming games with realistic graphics/physics in a seamless mixture of environments with broad gameplay opportunities.

Sourceforge is no longer being updated! While not specifically a MUD project, this project's basic concept has merged into another that can be found here: https://github.com/nicrohobak/Toolbox Along with an additional, related project of extreme interest: https://github.com/nicrohobak/AnsiGL ------------------------------------------------------------ HexMUD aims to be a fully-featured, game-system agnostic MUD server with a centrally focused feature of an added top-down hexagon-based map (dynamically generated and drawn in ANSI/ASCII art) giving a basic visual representation of your immediate surroundings in addition to traditional descriptions. Many (most?) MUD servers hard-code a specific game system, or a specific game setting within their code, but HexMUD strives to be as generic as possible in this area, allowing each separate administrator to easily build a custom code base while also gaining access to all of the core features HexMUD provides.