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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. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

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


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.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

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