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, and last but not least there's the 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.

###Mac OS X 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 required libraries from here and place the include and libraries folders into the 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 'default' branch for development, and therefore it should not be considered stable. Also used is the 'minor' branch, which is used for features in the next minor version and it is not our development target (which would be the next revision - version numbers are formatted major.minor.revision.)

We tag all our releases (since we started using mercurial), 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 Bitbucket issue tracker and the official 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 'downloads' section on bitbucket, are linked on the site, and there's a ppa for ubuntu, ppa:bartbes/love-stable.

There are also unstable/nightly builds:

• Most can be found here.
• For ubuntu linux they are in ppa:bartbes/love-unstable
• For arch linux there's love-hg in the AUR.

Dependencies

• SDL2
• OpenGL 2.1+ / OpenGL ES 2+
• OpenAL
• Lua / LuaJIT / LLVM-lua
• FreeType
• PhysicsFS
• ModPlug
• mpg123
• Vorbisfile
• Theora