The Grid engine is a 2D game engine built on LÖVE.
Grid makes powerful concepts from 3D game engines accessible in a 2D game
environment.
It's a lightweight and fast engine, and it provides many abstractions that you would otherwise need to write by hand for your projects or game jams.
Getting Started
API Documentation
- Addons
- Animation events
- Client-server model
- Client-side prediction
- Entities
- GUI
- Level streaming
- Live reloadable assets
- Lua 5.1.5 auxiliary library
- Massively multiplayer
- Pathfinding
- Real-time scripting
- Retina support
- Soundscripts
- Spritesheet animations
- Tiled-based region system
- Tweening
Though Grid is a lightweight engine, if you find it to be too large for what you need, you can find similar features in the packages below.
- lauxlib
Lua 5.1.5 Auxiliary Library - love-require
Adds live reloading to LÖVE - love-graphics
Graphics function overrides for LÖVE - love-window
Extends the window module - love-conf
Addsargv,_CLIENT,_SERVER,_DEDICATED, a--dedicatedargument that disables client-side modules, and OS-specificc.window.iconfunctionality - common
Common game development classes
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