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Mudlet/Mudlet

⚔️ A cross-platform, open source, and super fast MUD client with scripting in Lua

AI dev

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus-17 #cpp #cross-platform #game #hacktoberfest #linux

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-24
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 986 open

914

stars

Forks: 384
Commits: 8,772 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K

Open source RTS game running on the Spring/Recoil engine

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #game #gamedev #lua #modding #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-06
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,265 open

827

stars

Forks: 253
Commits: 20,763 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Planimeter/game-engine-2d

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

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#2d-game-engine #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #grid-sdk #love2d

Updated: 2022-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

751

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 379 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

makspll/bevy_mod_scripting

Bevy Scripting Plugin

AI dev

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#bevy #bevy-engine #game-development #lua #rhai #rust

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-04-30
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 45 open

653

stars

Forks: 59
Commits: 835 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TACC/Lmod

Lmod: An Environment Module System based on Lua, Reads TCL Modules, Supports a Software Hierarchy

Stack

Lua pip

GitHub topics

#environment-modules #hpc #lmod #lua #tacc #xsede

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-15
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 27 open

616

stars

Forks: 148
Commits: 8,508 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

natecraddock/ziglua

Zig bindings for the Lua C API

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#binding #library #lua #lua-bindings #package #zig

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

523

stars

Forks: 73
Commits: 521 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dense-analysis/neural

AI Vim/Neovim code generation plugin (OpenAI, ChatGPT, and more)

Stack

Vim Script pytest uv

GitHub topics

#ai #chatgpt #code-generation #gpt-3 #linux #llm

Updated: 2025-07-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-12-22
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

510

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 111 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kpcyrd/authoscope

Scriptable network authentication cracker

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#concurrency #cracking #credential-stuffing #dictionary-attack #lua #password

Updated: 2023-12-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-15
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 24 open

420

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 223 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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apioak/apioak

Full Lifecycle Management API Gateway.

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #apigateway #apioak #apis #cloud-native #dynamic-upstream

Updated: 2026-01-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-28
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2 open

416

stars

Forks: 56
Commits: 671 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

can1357/NtLua

Lua in kernel-mode because why not.

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#interesting-combo #kernel #lua

Updated: 2021-12-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-06
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

372

stars

Forks: 73
Commits: 21 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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markstory/lint-review

An automated code linting bot that integrates various code lint tools with github pull requests.

Stack

Python Celery Flask pytest Bundler Composer npm

GitHub topics

#eslint #flask-application #javascript #linter #lua #php

Updated: 2022-01-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-20
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

297

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 1,670 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

instead-hub/instead

INSTEAD - Simple Text Adventure Interpreter

AI dev

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#game-engine #interactive-fiction #lua #quests

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-02-21
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 10 open

258

stars

Forks: 47
Commits: 3,971 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tl-open-source/tl-ops-manage

api-gateway, framework for service management based on openresty。balance, health-check, limit-fuse, waf, 负载均衡，健康检查，服务熔断，服务限流，动态配置，数据统计, waf过滤，黑白名单，基于openresty的API网关

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #balance #health-check #limiter #lua #openresty

Updated: 2023-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-12-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

253

stars

Forks: 47
Commits: 164 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gerstrong/Commander-Genius

Modern Interpreter for the Commander Keen (Vorticon Dreams and Galaxy) and also Cosmos Cosmic Adventure games. This is a mirror repo: The main gitlab repository is at: https://gitlab.com/Dringgstein/Commander-Genius

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #commander #dos #keen #lua

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-06-06
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 21 open

223

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 6,571 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

squeek502/zua

An implementation of Lua 5.1 in Zig, for learning purposes

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#lua #lua-vm #zig

Updated: 2024-03-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-12-17
History: 6 history points
License: 0BSD
Issues: 0 open

212

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 135 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mgerhardy/simpleai

SimpleAI is a small C++ AI behaviour tree based library with a QT5 based remote debugger (and with optional LUA bindings) released under MIT.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#behaviour-tree #c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp-library #game-development #header-only

Updated: 2019-11-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-23
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 11 open

177

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 1,140 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

vanyle/vectarine

A free cross-platform game engine focusing on fast prototyping and having fun with Luau scripting

Stack

Rust Astro React Vite Cargo npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#game-engine #gamedev #lua #luau #luau-lang #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-09-07
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

136

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 515 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

SimonLarsen/duckmarines

Free software ChuChu Rocket remake for PC

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#chuchurocket #dreamcast #love2d #lua

Updated: 2019-06-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-23
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 4 open

121

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 212 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

sackosoft/zig-luajit

Run Lua code in Zig apps! A package providing Zig language bindings to LuaJIT.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#bindings #language-bindings #lua #lua-bindings #luajit #zig

Updated: 2026-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-01-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 178 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rapidforge-io/rapidforge

Lightweight, self hosted platform for building webhooks, scheduled tasks and pages. Implement your logic with Bash, Lua or mRuby

Stack

JavaScript Gin gRPC Go React Vite Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#automation #bash #cronjob #devops #drag-and-drop #golang

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-06-08
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 49 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 271 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

andrewrk/lua-in-the-browser

using zig to build lua for webassembly

Stack

GitHub topics

#lua #webassembly #zig

Updated: 2019-05-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-16
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 3 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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chadpaulson/missile-command

Missile Command arcade game clone, written in Lua with LÖVE for Mac OS, Windows and Linux.

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#arcade #arcade-game #atari2600 #game #love-game-engine #love2d

Updated: 2024-01-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-08
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 60 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

javalikescript/lha

light home automation application

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#blockly #home-automation #iot #lua #mqtt #raspberry-pi

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-21
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 580 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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