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The Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK), an open source firmware for Canon cameras, uses Lua as one of two scripting languages. Celestia, the astronomy educational program, uses Lua as its scripting language. Cheat Engine, a memory editor/debugger, enables Lua scripts to be embedded in its "cheat table" files, and even includes a GUI designer.
In video game development, Lua is widely used as a scripting language, mainly due to its perceived easiness to embed, fast execution, and short learning curve. [25] Notable games which use Lua include Roblox, [26] Garry's Mod, World of Warcraft, Payday 2, Phantasy Star Online 2, Dota 2, Crysis, [27] and many others.
The Lua language has allowed misspelled, or uninitialized, variables to be used in a script which can eventually cause "script error" while giving no other indication of the misspelled name or invalid data.
Later, significant updates for the Dark Engine-based games were published. [118] [119] [120] Dark Reign 2: 2000 2011 Windows RTS: Pandemic Studios: Released by a former developer of Pandemic Studios under LGPL. [121] [122] Legal status unclear. Defender: 1981 2021 Arcade Scrolling shooter: Williams Electronics