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24 alternatives to Evolved.lua – An Evolved Entity Component System for Lua
I'm excited to announce the first release of my library, evolved.lua! evolved.lua is a fast and flexible ECS (Entity-Component-System) library for Lua. It is designed to be simple and easy to use, while providing all the features needed to create complex systems with blazing performance. Enjoy!
Evolved.lua is an Entity-Component-System library for Lua that helps developers organize and manage complex game or application logic. It provides a framework for creating entities, attaching components to them, and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Lua Text Adventure Engine. Contribute to shawndumas/adventure.lua development by creating an account on GitHub.
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A replayable arcade shooter where you control a snake of heroes. - a327ex/SNKRX
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Extella.AI▲97Agentic platform that evolves & builds reusable systems
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I've been building a modern Ultima Online server emulator from scratch. It's not feature-complete (no combat, no skills yet), but the foundation is solid and I wanted to share it early. What it does today: - Full packet layer for the classic UO client (login, movement, items, mobiles) - Lua scripting for item behaviors (double-click a potion, open a door — all defined in Lua, no C# recompile) - Spatial world partitioned into sectors with delta sync (only sends packets for new sectors when crossing boundaries) - Snapshot-based persistence with MessagePack - Source generators for automatic DI…
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Hey folks — here’s a small experiment I hacked together over the weekend: https://cleoselene.com/ In short, it’s a way to build multiplayer games with no client-side game logic. Everything is rendered on the server, and the game itself is written as simple Lua scripts. I built this to explore a few gamedev ideas I’ve been thinking about while working on Abstra: - Writing multiplayer games as if they were single-player (no client/server complexity) - Streaming game primitives instead of pixels, which should be much lighter - Server-side rendering makes cheating basically…
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An open source Lua framework for building 3D games and VR experiences.
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A minimal text-editor with lua scripting. Contribute to skx/kilua development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Write programs on desktop and mobile
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A Lua MVC Web Framework. Contribute to sailorproject/sailor development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Some time ago, I was implementing saves for my LOVE2D game. I wanted to do a full dump of the game state -- which included closures (AI), complex graphs, sets with tables as keys and also fundamentally non-serializable data (coroutines and userdata), that require user-defined serialization/deserialization logic. I went through every Lua serialization library -- none covered all data types/cases. So I wrote my own. It is a polished version, thoroughly annotated, tested and documented. It is made to be as functional and customizable as possible (or at least I did everything I could…
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