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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.

"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) Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. 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. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted 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)	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.

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