Lua is used in many products and projects around the world. Here are some highlights. A different selection is shown every day.
"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) | Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. | The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. | Defold is a free engine for professional 2D game development, used at King games and by over 40,000 developers worldwide. All game logic is scripted in Lua. |
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. | Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. | Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. |