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Top Lua Game development repositories on GitHub

Engines, libraries, sample games, and tools for game makers. Filtered to projects whose primary language is Lua.

Ranked by stars across 43 Lua repositories tagged game-development. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    a327ex/BYTEPATH★ 1,541 · ⑂ 98

    A replayable arcade shooter with a focus on build theorycrafting.

    • game
    • lua
    • love2d
    • gamedev
    • indiedev
    • indie
  2. 2
    Planimeter/game-engine-2d★ 752 · ⑂ 67

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

    • 2d-game-engine
    • game-development
    • game-engine
    • gamedev
    • grid-sdk
    • love2d
  3. 3
    Quenty/NevermoreEngine★ 610 · ⑂ 144

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

    • roblox
    • game-development
    • lua
    • nevermore
    • rbxlua
  4. 4
    a327ex/windfield★ 568 · ⑂ 67

    Physics module for LÖVE

    • lua
    • love2d
    • physics
    • game-development
    • box2d
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  6. 5
    NobleRobot/NobleEngine★ 507 · ⑂ 41

    A li'l game engine for Playdate.

    • playdate
    • game-engine
    • game-engine-2d
    • lua
    • game-development
    • playdate-console
  7. 6
    jdriselvato/NDS-Homebrew-Development★ 369 · ⑂ 22

    My research for developing on the Nintendo DS

    • gamedev
    • game-development
    • nintendo
    • nds-homebrew
  8. 7
    Keyslam-Group/Concord★ 327 · ⑂ 27

    A feature-complete ECS library

    • ecs
    • game-development
    • lua
    • love2d
  9. 8
    lovetoys/lovetoys★ 306 · ⑂ 32

    :banana: a full-featured Entity-Component-System framework for making games with lua

    • entity-component-system
    • game-development
    • lua
    • love2d
    • gamejam
  10. 9
    a327ex/STALKER-X★ 296 · ⑂ 27

    Camera module for LÖVE

    • lua
    • love2d
    • camera
    • game-development
  11. 10
    TSnake41/raylib-lua★ 260 · ⑂ 20

    A modern LuaJIT binding for raylib (also available at https://gitlab.com/TSnake41/raylib-lua)

    • lua
    • luajit
    • raylib-lua
    • raylib
    • game-development
    • raylib-binding
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    CapsAdmin/goluwa★ 246 · ⑂ 17

    game engine and framework written in luajit

    • game-engine
    • luajit
    • lua
    • ffi
    • luajit-ffi-bindings
    • ffi-wrapper
  14. 12
    indiesoftby/defold-scene3d★ 193 · ⑂ 12

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

    • defold
    • defold-library
    • defold-shaders
    • game-development
    • 3d
    • 3d-graphics
  15. 13
    a327ex/boipushy★ 165 · ⑂ 26

    Input module for LÖVE

    • lua
    • love2d
    • input
    • gamepad
    • game-development
  16. 14
    adam10603/AC-Advanced-Gamepad-Assist★ 157 · ⑂ 10

    A mod for Assetto Corsa that provides a highly customizable steering assist for controller and keyboard.

    • assetto-corsa
    • driving-simulator
    • game
    • game-development
    • gamepad
    • mod
  17. 15
    thomasgoldstein/zabuyaki★ 130 · ⑂ 11

    Zabuyaki, old-school side-scrolling beat 'em up

    • retrogaming
    • indiegame
    • pixel-art
    • love2d
    • lua
    • game-development
  18. 16
    ace-dent/8x8.me★ 125 · ⑂ 5

    Monotone, 8×8px fill patterns

    • arduboy
    • bitsy
    • monotone
    • patterns
    • pico-8
    • pixel-art
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    josh-perry/peachy★ 116 · ⑂ 16

    A parser/renderer for Aseprite animations in LÖVE. :peach:

    • love2d
    • love
    • love2d-framework
    • animation
    • graphics
    • game-development
  21. 18
    GamesRightMeow/playbit★ 114 · ⑂ 8

    Playbit is a framework for creating cross-platform Playdate games from a single Lua codebase.

    • game-development
    • game-engine
    • love2d
    • lua
    • playdate
    • playdate-console
  22. 19
    ludenio/SuperWEIRDGameKit★ 100 · ⑂ 14

    SuperWEIRD Game Kit contains six different visual styles and the gameplay logic of a shop/production simulator. The player fulfills customer orders and expands production. Made with Defold game engine.

    • 2d
    • 2d-game
    • 2d-graphics
    • 2d-simulation
    • animation
    • defold
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