Showcase

Lua is used in many products and projects around the world. Here are some highlights. A different selection is shown every day.

Solar2D is a free Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage. It is a fork of the well established and widely used Corona SDK game engine. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. "Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this)

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.


Solar2D is a free Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage. It is a fork of the well established and widely used Corona SDK game engine.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	"Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this)

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.