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Mar 19, 2023

3D

• Menori (⭐74) - Library for 3D rendering with LÖVE.

Helpers

• Manami (⭐27) - An improved "reflowprint" with UTF-8, multicolor, and justify support.

UI

• Inky (⭐18) - Any-purpose GUI framework.

Mar 09, 2023

Development

• vudu (⭐21) - Broad in-game debugging gui with a console, variable browser/editor, speed controls, and more.

Jan 28, 2023

AI

• beehive.lua (⭐11) - A functional behavior tree implementation.

Dec 27, 2022

Helpers

• YAS (⭐0) - Yet Another Screen manager.

Dec 11, 2022

Development

• loveprofiler (⭐3) - LoveProfiler is an extremely simple logger and profiler.

Drawing

• Resolution Solution (⭐14) - Scale library, that help you add resolution support to your games!

Entity

• ecs-lua (⭐77) - ECS Lua is a fast and easy to use ECS (Entity Component System) engine for game development.

Helpers

• lua-state-machine (⭐303) - Lua Finite State Machine.

• Scenery (⭐6) - A dead simple scene/state management system.

Input

• Kazari (⭐6) - Multitouch gesture and input library.

Tweening

• NAniTe (⭐27) - Timeline-based animation system that supports forward and backward update.

UI

• YUI - Declarative UI library for LÖVE.

Nov 17, 2022

Distribution

• LÖVE Actions - Build & deploy cross-platform game packages on ALL popular platforms. Supports Android, iOS, Linux, maxOS, Windows.

Jul 26, 2022

AI

• pathfun (⭐8) - Pure Lua library for 2D pathfinding using the funnel algorithm.

UI

• cimgui-love (⭐56) - LÖVE module for Dear ImGui obtained by wrapping cimgui (programmatically generated C-api) using LuaJIT FFI, easy to update to the latest Dear Imgui version.

Jun 13, 2022

Camera

• cam11 - Camera library that leverages the Transform object introduced in love2d 11.0+.

May 30, 2022

UI

• Slicy (⭐8) - A newer 9patch/9slice library fixing some issues with Patchy.

May 19, 2022

Utilities

• nativefs (⭐19) - Read and write files outside of LÖVE's allowed paths.

Apr 27, 2022

Distribution

• love-fuser (⭐15) - Packages LÖVE Games using GitHub Actions. Supports Windows, Linux, and Android.

Mar 26, 2022

Performance

• AppleCake (⭐15) - Profiling library for LÖVE, with detailed profiling and thread support.

Mar 23, 2022

Drawing

• grove.draworder (⭐7) - Similar to deep, but you can set a custom sorting method and create multiple, nestable instances.

Helpers

• grove.color (⭐7) - Blend, convert and interpolate colors using 'color objects'.

Mar 06, 2022

Distribution

• love-packager (⭐7) - Simple CLI to package your LÖVE Game in seconds.

Mar 03, 2022

Animation

• Aseprite loader (⭐18) - Complete ase/aseprite file loader (no json).

Feb 08, 2022

Input

• Swipe (⭐2) - A simple radial keyboard library.

UI

• Helium (⭐83) - A modern, customizable, high performance retained UI framework.

• ListBox (⭐14) - A dynamic ListBox for LÖVE that supports touch, mouse, and keyboard inputs.

• Lynx - Very-lightweight list-based UI library.

• Plan (⭐15) - A super simple Rule-based layout library.

Jan 19, 2022

3D

• anim9 (⭐28) - 3D skeletal animation library (design to be used with IQM and IQE).

• Brinevector3D (⭐10) - FFI-enabled vector library for 3D (x,y,z).

• IQE (⭐8) - Inter-Quake Export loader (text).

• IQM (⭐36) - Inter-Quake Model loader (binary).

• love-gltf - Gltf asset loader and test renderer; Supports skeletal animations and morph targets.

• Lovox (⭐45) - Pseudo-3D library for working with voxels.

• model_renderer (⭐17) - A simple 3d model renderer for love2d.

AI

• Jumper (⭐578) - Grid-based pathfinding library.

• Lua-star (⭐43) - Easy and pure Lua A* path finding.

Animation

• andross (⭐30) - A Lua library for 2D skeletal/bone animations with a Löve backend.

• anim8 (⭐590) - Animation library.

• animx (⭐18) - A featureful Animation library for loading animations from XML files!.

• chiro (⭐25) - Convenience wrapper around Spine.

• Peachy (⭐89) - A parser/renderer for Aseprite animations in LÖVE.

• skeletor (⭐24) - 2D skeletal animation system.

• Walt (⭐55) - Animation library.

• Lump (⭐19) - Adobe Flash animation runtime.

• lovanim (⭐26) - A minimal stateful animation library.

• SYSL-Text (⭐47) - Text animation and automatic wrapping library based on tags.

Camera

• Brady (⭐54) - Camera library with parallax scrolling.

• Editgrid (⭐40) - Gamera and HUMP compatible scaling grid.

• gamera (⭐211) - Camera system.

• hump.camera - Camera library with window locking and smooth camera movement interpolation.

Development

• FPSGraph (⭐14) - Small FPS graphing utility.

• debugGraph (⭐29) - Small OO FPS graphing utillity based on FPSGraph.

• Lovebird (⭐262) - Browser-based debug console.

• LoveDebug (⭐90) - Inline console-like debugger utility.

• lurker (⭐245) - Auto-swaps changed Lua files in a running game.

• LÖVE API (⭐259) - The complete API documentation of LÖVE in a Lua table.

• LÖVE Build (⭐46) - GitHub Action for automated cross-platform builds.

• LÖVE TypeScript Definitions (⭐92) - Write LÖVE games with TypeScript.

• lovelier (⭐13) - A LÖVE live reloader with Moonscript support.

Drawing

• Artal (⭐41) - A .PSD parsing library for LÖVE.

• Autobatch (⭐100) - Small LÖVE module to automate the use of SpriteBatches.

• center (⭐8) - A simple module to dynamically align and fit content to screens of any size.

• deep (⭐41) - Adds Z axis; allows you to queue actions and draw calls.

• draft (⭐43) - A module for drawing complex shapes.

• HSLUV (⭐44) - Lua implementation of HSLuv (a human-friendly alternative to HSL).

• Maid64 (⭐47) - Low resolution scaler for LÖVE.

• Push (⭐414) - A simple resolution-handling library for LÖVE.

• renderplanet (⭐19) - Realistic orthographic planet rendering.

• svglover (⭐44) - Library to import and display simple SVGs in LÖVE.

• SYSL-Pixel (⭐24) - Pixel art focused scaler for graphics, position, screen-captures and shaders.

• Sölar (⭐7) - A fairly simple solar system simulator.

• Tove2d (⭐151) - Animated vector graphics for LÖVE.

• turtle.lua (⭐79) - Turtle graphics library for LÖVE.

• Runtime-TextureAtlas (⭐13) - Texture atlas packer and renderer at runtime; no external tools.

• Export-TextureAtlas (⭐5) - Extends Runtime-TextureAtlas as a commandline tool to export an atlas.

Entity

• adorbs (⭐29) - Minimal, Functional Entity Component System.

• Concord (⭐162) - A feature-complete ECS library.

• knife.system (⭐369) - Minimalist functional ECS.

• nata (⭐36) - Hybrid OOP/ECS entity management.

• tiny-ecs (⭐540) - Entity Component System for Lua that's simple, flexible, and useful.

Helpers

• astray (⭐123) - Astray is a lua based maze, room and dungeon generation library for dungeon crawlers and roguelike video games.

• batteries (⭐215) - Fills out lua's sparse standard library and provides implementations of common algorithms and data structures useful for games.

• clove (⭐22) - A helper library which allows you to quickly loads huge amount of assets.

• iffy (⭐17) - A SpriteSheet and Tileset helper library for LÖVE.

• knife (⭐369) - Collection of useful micro-modules for Lua (Class, State Machines, Bind, Chain, Coroutines, Event, Memoize, Entity, Tests, Timer).

• shard (⭐15) - Collection of useful mini modules.

• love-state-switcher (⭐8) - State switcher class for Lua LÖVE Engine.

• lue (⭐41) - Lue is a LÖVE library that allows you to display hue color effects in your game.

• lume (⭐784) - Collection of functions for Lua, geared towards game development.

• narrator (⭐78) - An Ink narrative scripting language parser and runtime implementation.

• reflowprint (⭐41) - A library designed for alignment of text that is shown one character at a time.

• roomy (⭐35) - Screen management library for LÖVE.

• rotLove (⭐231) - Roguelike Toolkit in LÖVE. A LÖVE/lua port of rot.js.

• ScreenManager (⭐29) - Screen/State Management for the LÖVE framework.

• shack (⭐53) - Shack is a LÖVE library that lets you easily add screen effects such as shake and rotation.

• Simple Tiled Implementation (⭐714) - Tiled map loader and renderer.

• Vivid (⭐52) - Color math, manipulation and conversion library.

• Yonder (⭐10) - A ridiculously easy to use game state management library for LOVE2D.

Input

• baton (⭐171) - Input library for LÖVE that bridges the gap between keyboard and gamepad controls.

• love-microphone (⭐56) - Simple microphone support for LÖVE.

• LoveKeys (⭐6) - A simple input handeling library that keeps track of things for you.

• tactile (⭐49) - A straightforward and flexible input library.

Lighting

• lighter (⭐22) - A performant dynamic light implementation with a simple API.

• Shädows (⭐154) - A Shadows & Lights engine for LÖVE.

• Light World (⭐209) - A lighting model.

• Simple Love Lights (⭐22) - A very simple raycasting light implementation.

• Light (⭐6) - A simple dynamic light implementation.

Math

• Bresenham (⭐14) - Bresenham's line algorithm written in Lua.

• brinevector (⭐43) - Standalone lightweight luajit ffi-accelerated 2D vector library for great performance.

• Cirno's Perfect Math Library (⭐269) - Math/intersection library designed for games.

• delaunay (⭐100) - Delaunay triangulation for convex polygons.

• hump.vector - Powerful 2D vector class.

• MLib (⭐75) - Math and shape-intersection detection library written in Lua. It's aim is to be robust and easy to use.

• nvec (⭐27) - Hump.vector-compatible LuaJIT FFI-accelerated 2D vector library.

• shash (⭐55) - A simple, lightweight spatial hash for Lua.

• vector.lua (⭐32) - A simple vector library based on the PVector class from processing.

Music

• denver (⭐76) - A Löve custom waveform generation library.

• lovebpm (⭐67) - A LÖVE library for syncing events to the BPM of an audio track.

• ripple (⭐29) - An audio manager with tagging support.

• wave (⭐83) - A sound manager with audio parsing and rhythm functionalities.

Networking

• Grease (⭐106) - Networking library intended to make networking easy for lovers (TCP, UDP, Enet). (IPv6)

• LoverNet (⭐55) - A networking library that leverages bitser and enet. (IPv4)

• NoobHub (⭐277) - OpenSource multiplayer and network messaging. (IPv6)

• Sock.lua (⭐150) - A Lua networking library for LÖVE games. (IPv4)

• löve-ws (⭐20) - A websocket client and server library.

• love2d-lua-websocket (⭐26) - A simple event-driven websocket client library. (IPv4)

OO

• 30log (⭐390) - Minified framework for object-orientation in Lua. It features named (and unnamed) classes, single inheritance and a basic support for mixins.

• classic (⭐685) - Tiny class module for Lua. Attempts to stay simple and provide decent performance by avoiding unnecessary over-abstraction.

• hump.class - Small, fast class/prototype implementation with multiple inheritance (class-commons).

• middleclass (⭐1.5k) - Simple OOP library for Lua; has inheritance, metamethods (operators), class variables and weak mixin support (class-commons).

• muun (⭐6) - Moonscript compatible class implementation.

• selene (⭐15) - Project template for writing games in Moonscript instead of Lua without precompiling.

Performance

• jprof (⭐74) - Profiling library/tool for LÖVE.

• Piefiller (⭐20) - Graphical profiler for LÖVE.

• ProFi - A simple lua profiler that works with LuaJIT and prints a pretty report file in columns.

Physics

• breezefield (⭐38) - A lightweight and easy love.physics wrapper (windfield alternative).

• Bump (⭐799) - Collision detection library for Lua.

• HC - Collision detection with arbitrary polygons; allows rotation of objects.

• Strike (⭐14) - 2D collision detection library. Extendable, based on Separating-Axis-Theorem.

Platforms

• LoveDos (⭐637) - A Lua framework for 2D DOS games, implementing a subset of the LÖVE API.

• LoveFTW - Work-in-progress port to Windows phone 8.1.

• LovePotion (⭐414) - Unofficial work-in-progress implementation of the LÖVE API for Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch Homebrew.

• LOVE-WrapLua (⭐30) - A small and simple wrapper for OneLua, lpp-vita, and Lua Player PS3.

• Love.js (⭐434) - LÖVE ported to the web using Emscripten.

• LÖVR (⭐1.5k) - LÖVE for virtual reality devices.

Publishing

• Love-Snap-Template (⭐21) - A template for packaging LÖVE games for distribution in the Snappy Store.

• AppImageKit (⭐7.8k) - Using AppImageKit you can package LÖVE games as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives; one game = one file.

Serialization

• arson (⭐7) - Companion library for registering custom data types that can be encoded and decoded by json.lua.

• binser (⭐178) - Customizable Lua Serializer.

• bitser (⭐140) - Serializes and deserializes Lua values with LuaJIT.

• cdata (⭐30) - Serialize between Lua data and C data using LuaJIT's FFI.

• knife.serialize (⭐369) - Serialize data as a Lua script.

• Lady (⭐34) - Saving and loading savegames; based on Ser.

• moonblob (⭐23) - Binary serialization and data parsing library.

• Ser (⭐73) - Fast, robust, richly-featured table serialization library for Lua.

• Smallfolk (⭐16) - A fast, robust, secure, richly-featured table serialization library for Lua.

• trickle (⭐30) - A bitstream library focused on high compression for use in networking.

Shaders

• LoveShaderConverter (⭐61) - Convert Shadertoy Shader files to LÖVE GLSL Files with handy utilities for infinite purposes.

• Shadertoy viewer - Run code copied from shadertoy directly or output the converted code to a LÖVE shader.

Testing

• busted (⭐1.2k) - Simple unit-testing framework with customizable assertions.

• knife.test (⭐369) - Fixture-free test framework.

• Luassert (⭐150) - Extends assert() with additional, customizable tests.

• Lunatest (⭐79) - xUnit-style randomized unit testing framework.

• lust (⭐82) - Minimal test framework.

• Specl - Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tool.

• Telescope - Highly-customizable BDD-style testing library.

Tweening

• Flux (⭐313) - A fast, lightweight tweening library for Lua.

• hump.timer - Timer and tweening library with flexible tweening methods.

• tick (⭐98) - Lua module for delaying function calls.

• tween.lua (⭐501) - Tweening/Easing/Interpolating functions for Lua inspired on jQuery's animate method.

UI

• CatUI (⭐92) - A very light-weight GUI library for LÖVE.

• GOOi (⭐194) - Android-oriented GUI library.

• Gspöt - A stateful GUI lib for LÖVE.

• Hanker - Maximalist immediate mode-ish UI elements; gamepad-friendly.

• LoveFrames Fork (⭐98) - 11.2 Fork of a GUI library.

• Love Imgui (⭐290) - Imgui module for the LÖVE game engine.

• Löve-Nuklear (⭐310) - Lightweight immediate mode GUI for LÖVE games.

• Patchy (⭐33) - 9patch library.

• SafeWord (⭐3) - An overscan detection library for LÖVE.

• SUIT (⭐422) - Small immediate mode GUI library.

Utilities

• ArrayRotation - Rotation of two dimensional arrays (square and non-square).

• cargo (⭐142) - Asset manager.

• chance.lua - Library for generating random data.

• colorchanger (⭐1) - Change the colors in your LÖVE game.

• Flirt (⭐12) - LÖVE version manager; allows to switch between multiple versions of engine on same machine.

• GifCat (⭐39) - A simple module for saving gifs from LÖVE.

• hex2color (⭐5) - A single function to use HEX color values.

• i18n (⭐22) - Internationalization library designed to help localize your game.

• Ini Parser (⭐14) - General purpose ini configuration parser.

• log.lua (⭐266) - Library for configurable log output.

• love-loader (⭐116) - Threaded resource loading.

• love2d-assets-loader (⭐35) - Assets Loader.

• love-pe (⭐15) - A tool made in LÖVE for changing LÖVE icon itself.

• lovely-engine (⭐6) - A tool that makes setting up and using LÖVE easier and with Moonscript support.

• Lily (⭐94) - Async Asset Loader.

• luasteam (⭐82) - Lua bindings for the Steamworks API.

• Luvent (⭐70) - Simple event-driven programming.

• nativefiledialog (⭐11) - Open a file picker on Windows/Mac/Linux.

• Optikon - WYSIWYG visual level designer.

• ParticleEditor (⭐1) - An editor of particle for LÖVE.

• particle-system-playground (⭐11) - A basic LÖVE particle system editor.

• require.lua (⭐6) - Require all files in a folder.

• splashy (⭐35) - Splash Screen Library.

• ShakeDetectorLua (⭐4) - Uses accelerometer data for shake device detection written in Lua.

• tick (⭐64) - Useful timing tweaks for LÖVE's run loop.

Tutorials

• learn2love - Book for learning programming with Lua and LÖVE (Version 11.0+).

• Using Tiled Maps in LÖVE - An article about using maps created with Tiled in your LÖVE game.

• Tutorial on making an Arkanoid-type game (⭐172) - A complete tutorial on how to make a breakout clone by nooowaay.

• Simple Game Tutorials - Tutorials for making simple games with LÖVE (Snake, Sokoban, Tetris, etc.).

• How to LÖVE - A book by Sheepolution teaching LÖVE from the ground up.

• CS50 Introduction to Game Development - Harvard Colleges CS50 OpenCourseWare.

• Building love2d games for the web with love.js and Docker - A tutorial on packaging LÖVE games for the web.

IDEs

• Atom - A hackable text editor for the 21st Century (obsolete).
  • Love-Atom - Smart autocompletion for the LÖVE framework in Atom.
  • Autocomplete GLSL - Adds GLSL autocompletion in Atom.
  • language-glsl - OpenGL Shading Language support in Atom.
  • language-lua - Lua language support in Atom.
  • linter-luacheck (⭐12) - Lint Lua on the fly, using luacheck.
  • Löve Launcher - Launch LÖVE for the current project without having to leave Atom.
  • Löve IDE - This package auto-installs several utilities for writing Love2D games in Atom.
    • Autocomplete Löve - Auto-complete and snippets for LÖVE.
    • Hyperclick Löve - A Hyperclick provider for LÖVE which shows the wiki.
    • linter-luaparse - Lua syntax error checking in Atom.

• Brackets - A modern, open source text editor by Adobe (obsolete).
  • Lua Syntax Highlighter (⭐4) - Add Lua syntax highlighting in Brackets.
  • LÖVE Hints for Brackets.io - Provides LÖVE code hints.
  • Run LÖVE (⭐4) - Run LÖVE projects with a hotkey.

• IntelliJ IDEA - Capable and Ergonomic Java IDE.
  • EmmyLua (⭐542) - Lua IDE/Debugger Plugin for VSCode.
  • LÖVE IDEA (⭐60) - Snippets and code completion for IntelliJ-IDEA.

• Vim - Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient.
  • Vim LOVE Docs (⭐48) - Syntax highlighting for Vim.

• Notepad++ - Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
  • LÖVE API for Notepad++ (⭐11) - Code completion and documentation for Notepad++.

Distribution

• love-export (⭐46) - Fast and simple command-line tool that builds binaries for you. Supports Windows, macOS, and Linux.

• love-deploy (⭐5) - Build and deploy games on itch.io (supports windows and web exports).

Related

• awesome-lua (⭐3.3k) - A list like this one, but more general and encompassing all of Lua's uses.

• awesome-love-shaders (⭐68) - A collection of shaders designed to work in LÖVE.

• awesome-pico8 (⭐2.3k) - A curated list of PICO-8 resources, tutorials, tools and more.

Jan 04, 2022

Helpers

• hump (⭐59) - Collection of tools for developing games with LÖVE (Gamestates, Timers/Tweens, Vectors, Classes, Signals, Cameras).

Aug 21, 2021

UI

• Slab (⭐227) - Slab is an immediate mode GUI toolkit for the LÖVE framework.

Jul 31, 2021

Shaders

• ngrading (⭐27) - Simple color grading library.

UI

• NLay (⭐27) - Flexible layouting library.

Feb 23, 2021

Distribution

• boon (⭐119) - Multi-platform, easy to use tool supporting Windows, macOS, Linux.

• love-release (⭐440) - A Lua script that automates game distribution. Supports Windows, macOS, Debian, Linux.

• makelove (⭐85) - Advanced multi-platform tool to fuse your game written in Python 3. Supports Windows and Linux with AppImage.

Feb 02, 2021

3D

• g3d (⭐389) - Simple and easy 3D engine for LÖVE.

Input

• input (⭐2) - Simple and powerful input library. support check operation time, sequence.

Oct 07, 2020

UI

• YALG (⭐10) - A very simple, cross-platform, reactive UI for last minute UIs.

Jun 09, 2020

IDEs

• Visual Studio Code - VS Code is a new type of tool that combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle.
  • Visual Studio Code LÖVE Launcher - A Löve Launcher Extension for Visual Studio Code.
  • Lua for Visual Studio Code - Provides Intellisense and Linting for Lua in VSCode.
  • Local Lua Debugger - Simple Lua debugger with no dependencies. Löve specific launch.json example provided.

Mar 23, 2020

AI

• astar (⭐9) - An other A* library. Any map(gird, point, mesh or infinite map) and support path cost.

Dec 23, 2019

3D

• 3DreamEngine (⭐266) - An awesome 3D engine for LÖVE.

Oct 04, 2018

3D

• bump-3dpd (⭐60) - A 3D collision detection library for Lua.

Helpers

• cartographer (⭐62) - Small Tiled map loader and drawer.

• lovely-windows (⭐14) - A Window/Screen Manager Module for virtual windows.

OO

• knife.base (⭐369) - Extremely minimal base class providing single inheritance and constructors.

Physics

• loveblobs (⭐61) - A softbody library with support for both dynamic and static arbitrary softbodies.

Shaders

• Moonshine (⭐464) - Repository of common post-processing effects like blur, vignette, color-grading, etc.

Tweening

• knife.timer (⭐369) - Create timers and tweens with ease.

UI

• Polywell - A highly-configurable text editor / coding tool written in Lua that runs on the LÖVE game engine.

IDEs

• ZeroBrane Studio - ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, code analyzer, and debugging support.
  • API Syntax Hightlight (⭐9) - Script to add LOVE API syntax highlighting to ZBS.

• Sublime Text - Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
  • Package Manager - The Sublime Text package manager that makes it exceedingly simple to find, install and keep packages up-to-date.
  • SublimeLove - Supports syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and build system.
  • SublimeLinter-luacheck - Provides linting and static analysis of your Lua code.