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

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. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.

Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. "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)


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.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.

Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	"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)