Open Source Lua Side-Scrolling Games for Linux

Official continuation of the famous Blobby Volley 1.x arcade game.

FreedroidRPG is an original isometric 3D role playing game taking place in the future, on Earth. It features action and dialogs. FreedroidClassic is a 2D arcade game similar to Paradroid. =========================================== !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! FreedroidRPG is migrating !! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Latest versions of Git repositories are on https://codeberg.org/freedroid/ - Binary files are hosted on http://ftp.osuosl.og/pub/freedroid ===========================================

JVGS is an open source platform game that is not like the others. It is build on simple line structures loaded from svg files, giving the whole game a "sketched" and minimalistic look. Levels can be made with simple xml and lua files.

"Blinkensisters - Hunt for The Lost Pixels" is a Jump'n'Run game for nearly all recent operating systems. It's fun to play and you can make your own levels with a simple text editor. Also, you can download add-ons from within the game engine.

LGCK Builder provides a unique development environment that can be easily used by novice and seasoned game creators to get the best results quickly. Our approach is different because the philosophy is geared toward simplicity and re-usability. Quick 5 minute tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN3gkZWr-PM

Avoision is a straightforward, yet captivating distillation of vintage arcade entertainment requiring strategy, precision, and perseverance with a singular objective: capture the red square while evading innumerable cruel, spiteful white squares.

A Far West themed 2D shooter featuring bullet time. Made in Lua using the Love2D library (http://love2d.org).

Enigma is a puzzle and dexterity game. It's 2D in gameplay and graphics, and available for Linux, Windows and Mac, and several languages. It features more than 1000 levels and is maintained by a vivid community, creating ever more inventive levels.

This is a danmaku development project. It'll be a fan game based on famous Touhou series including some original characters.

A Simple Top Down Game Engine for Linux and Windows obs: in development pre-alpha stage, not fully playable

A modified client for the open source online multiplayer game Teeworlds, featuring a Lua API. Other highlights include smooth UI design, an identity management system, A* path finding for race maps and a great customizability.

NOTE THAT THIS PROJECT HAS MOVED TO GOOGLE CODE https://code.google.com/p/bitfighter/ Bitfighter is a really fun (!) multiplayer shoot-em-up with customizable ships and Robotron-like controls. Solid networking for great Internet playability.

2D action game of underground tanks with customizable intelligence of computer players and multiplayer option, allowing both network and splitscreen.

Mod-friendly framework for the creation of 3D-rendered, two-dimensional fighting games. Default character-set features open source mascots (e.g. Tux). A cross-platform Super Smash Bros. clone.

A space shooter with: non-fixed AI behavior, less scripted behavior and more AI interaction, a solid political struggle on the background and many RPG characteristics to it

shoot enemies down in this remake of the classic game paratrooper, coded in lua with the love2d gamelibrary

NiL is a modular multi-purpose gaming engine including a multiplayer worm game a little like quake, except it's 2d and a little like worms except it's realtime.

Important: This game uses OpenGL and reqires 3D acceleraion to run properly. It will not work on most systems without a discrete graphics card.

A 2-dimensional cross-platform game engine based on SDL.

The Shoot 'Em Up Game! Ultra awesome graphics in full 3-D. Genuinly powerful bullet patterns. Breathtakingly radical enemy movements. Super slick human-computer control setup. Guaranteed To Blow Your Mind.

This is the project for an Action RPG game under C++/SDL/Lua, which has hardly began, so there's not much to write about it yet. The name is obviously temporary.

Steel Hero will be a top-down tank shooter featuring multiple game modes and plenty of baddies to destroy.

Making these little burgers with guns and hammers a bit better :)

The spel is a 2D multiplayer game. The game takes place in space in the future, were a conflict is building up. A vast conflict with great underlaying complexity; you are in space, thus you shoot lasers at each other.

Iskai is (going to be) a colorful 3D Platform-RPG game.