LÖVE is an awesome framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, and iOS.
Documentation
We use our wiki for documentation.
If you need further help, feel free to ask on our forums, our Discord server, or our IRC channel #love on OFTC.
Compilation
Windows
Follow the instructions at the megasource repository page.
*nix
Run platform/unix/automagic from the repository root, then run ./configure and make.
$ platform/unix/automagic
$ ./configure
$ make
When using a source release, automagic has already been run, and the first step can be skipped.
macOS
Download the required frameworks from here and place them in /Library/Frameworks/.
Then use the Xcode project found at platform/xcode/love.xcodeproj to build the love-macosx target.
iOS
Download the ios-libraries zip file corresponding to the LÖVE version being used from here,
unzip it, and place the include and libraries subfolders into LÖVE's platform/xcode/ios folder.
Then use the Xcode project found at platform/xcode/love.xcodeproj to build the love-ios target.
See readme-iOS.rtf for more information.
Android
Visit the Android build repository for build instructions.
Repository information
We use the 'master' branch for patch development of the current major release, and therefore it should not be considered stable.
There may also be a branch for the next major version in development, which is named after that version.
We tag all our releases (since we started using mercurial and git), and have binary downloads available for them.
Experimental changes are developed in the separate love-experiments repository.
Contributing
The best places to contribute are through the issue tracker and the official Discord server or IRC channel.
For code contributions, pull requests and patches are welcome. Be sure to read the source code style guide.
Builds
Releases are found in the releases section on GitHub, and are linked on the site,
and there's a ppa for ubuntu, ppa:bartbes/love-stable.
There are also unstable/nightly builds:
- Builds for some platforms are automatically created after each commit and are available through GitHub's CI interfaces.
- Otherwise, some less frequently updated builds can can be found here.
- For ubuntu linux they are in ppa:bartbes/love-unstable
- For arch linux there's love-git in the AUR.
Dependencies
- SDL2
- OpenGL 2.1+ / OpenGL ES 2+
- OpenAL
- Lua / LuaJIT / LLVM-lua
- FreeType
- ModPlug
- mpg123
- Vorbisfile
- Theora