Top 23 Love2d Open-Source Projects

• love

  260 4,513 9.7 C++

  LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

  

Project mention: What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-01

I have used it a long time ago but I don't remember ever touching C/C++. You can even make simple games without ever going low level thanks to https://love2d.org/! If I recall, most https://stabyourself.net/ games are based on love2d.

If you're using Linux/MacOS, you can copy-paste these commands on the terminal and you should be settled:

• awesome-love2d

  28 3,079 5.6

  A curated list of amazingly awesome LÖVE libraries, resources and shiny things.

  

Project mention: what should I use to create games in lua? raylib vs love 2d | /r/raylib | 2023-06-11

I tried both and honestly the experience with love is better because it's actually made for lua. There's a vscode extension for love, a ton of lua libraries etc.

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• BYTEPATH

  2 1,351 0.0 Lua

  A replayable arcade shooter with a focus on build theorycrafting.

• SNKRX

  21 1,199 0.0 Lua

  A replayable arcade shooter where you control a snake of heroes.

Project mention: Releasing a game on Steam | /r/gamedev | 2023-12-06

One thing that really helped me is looking at the source code and assets of one game that I really enjoyed -- SNKRX, the creator of the game, a327ex, put everything on Github so you can take a look how a finished game looks: https://github.com/a327ex/SNKRX/. The repo even includes the various images needed for Steam, this was very nice so I could make sure some of the assets I made aren't unfit for their purpose: https://github.com/a327ex/SNKRX/tree/master/assets/media . There are also some Photoshop files provided on the Steamworks FAQ which are very useful too, but they mainly show just in which area of the image you shouldn't put important text etc.

• picolove

  7 733 8.5 Lua

  PICO-8 Reimplementation in Love2D. Chat: https://discord.gg/jGEMUse6RM

  

Project mention: Pico 8 in other software | /r/pico8 | 2023-12-06

Picolove, written in lua for love2d: a very good starting point, especially if the engine you're using has support for lua. Has been used for "expanded" versions of games, because it's very easy to modify the resolution of the display and things like that. Works for simpler carts like Celeste, but is not memory accurate!

• game-engine-2d

  9 720 0.0 Lua

  Planimeter Game Engine 2D - LÖVE-based game engine for Lua

  

• tiny-ecs

  2 619 0.0 Lua

  ECS for Lua

• SaaSHub

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• g3d

  4 518 0.0 Lua

  Simple and easy 3D engine for LÖVE.

• awesome-playdate

  4 505 3.9

  A list of awesome resources for Playdate (https://play.date) game development and the Playdate SDK (https://play.date/dev/)

• 3DreamEngine

  4 359 6.8 Lua

  3DreamEngine is an *awesome* 3d engine for LÖVE.

  

• love-nuklear

  1 337 3.7 C

  Lightweight immediate mode GUI for LÖVE games

• lovetoys

  1 297 10.0 Lua

  :banana: a full-featured Entity-Component-System framework for making games with lua

  

• batteries

  4 308 7.4 Lua

  Reusable dependencies for games made with lua (especially with love)

• love-api

  3 290 6.3 Lua

  The whole LÖVE wiki in a Lua table.

  

• rotLove

  1 241 0.0 Lua

  Roguelike Toolkit in Love. A Love2D/lua port of rot.js

• sock.lua

  4 167 0.0 Lua

  A Lua networking library for LÖVE games.

• LOVE-Example-Browser

  1 130 10.0 Lua

  Example browser containing many helpful examples to get you started in Löve.

  

• love-typescript-definitions

  1 114 6.7 JavaScript

  Write LÖVE 2D projects with TypeScript

• funkin-rewritten

  2 102 0.0 Lua

  Optimized rewrite of Friday Night Funkin' built on LÖVE

• helium

  2 90 1.8 Lua

• livesim2_async

  2 90 7.9 Lua

  Love Live! School Idol Festival Live Simulator

  

• panel-attack

  2 88 8.2 Lua

  Panel Attack is a free modern puzzle game inspired by popular games such as Tetris Attack and Pokemon Puzzle League while still maintaining authentic mechanics. Arrange colored panels in rows and columns of three or more to match matches that clear. Panels then fall from gravity and can make chains that give bonuses or attack the other player.

  

• splashes

  2 72 0.0 Lua

  A collection of splash screens for LÖVE

  

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