A categorized community-driven collection of high-quality, awesome LÖVE libraries, projects, and resources.

Table of contents

• 3D
• AI
• Animation
• Camera
• Development
• Drawing
• Entity
• Helper Libraries
• Input
• Lighting
• Math
• Music
• Networking
• Object Orientation
• Performance
• Physics
• Platforms
• Publishing
• Serialization
• Shaders
• Testing
• Tweening
• UI
• Utilities
• Tutorials
• IDEs

3D

3D-centric Libraries

• anim9 - 3D skeletal animation library (design to be used with IQM and IQE)
• bump-3dpd - A 3D collision detection library for Lua.
• DEEP - Handles draw order by allowing you to specify Z axis when drawing.
• IQE - Inter-Quake Export loader (text)
• IQM - Inter-Quake Model loader (binary)
• LÖVE3D - 3D extensions to LÖVE
• Lovox - Pseudo-3D library for working with voxels

AI

Navigation, Decision-Making and AI Libraries

• Jumper - Grid-based pathfinding library

Animation

Animation & Frame-Managing Libraries

• andross - a Lua library for 2D skeletal/bone animations with a Löve backend
• anim8 - Animation library
• chiro - Convenience wrapper around Spine
• skeletor - 2D skeletal animation system
• Walt - Animation library
• Lump - Adobe Flash animation runtime

Camera

Viewport & Camera Libraries

• Brady - Camera library with parallax scrolling
• Editgrid - Gamera and HUMP compatible scaling grid
• gamera - Camera system
• hump.camera - Camera library with window locking and smooth camera movement interpolation
• STALKER-X - STALKER-X is a camera module for LÖVE

Development

Development assisting Libraries, that enrich your development experience

• FPSGraph - Small FPS graphing utility
• debugGraph - Small OO FPS graphing utillity based on FPSGraph
• Lovebird - Browser-based debug console
• Lovecat - Edit your game parameters in a browser and see the changes in the running game in real time
• LoveDebug - Inline console-like debugger utility
• lurker - Auto-swaps changed Lua files in a running game
• LÖVE API - The complete API documentation of LÖVE in a Lua table

Drawing

Drawing specific Libraries, that simplify the Drawing process

• draft - A module for drawing complex shapes
• Artal - A .PSD parsing library for LÖVE
• Autobatch - Small LÖVE module to automate the use of SpriteBatches
• HSLUV - Lua implementation of HSLuv (a human-friendly alternative to HSL)
• Maid64 - Low resolution scaler for LÖVE
• Möan.lua - Multiple-choice VN-esque messagebox library for LÖVE
• renderplanet - realistic orthographic planet rendering
• Sölar - a fairly simple solar system simulator
• svglover - Library to import and display simple SVGs in LÖVE

Entity

Entity and Gameobject Managing Libraries

• adorbs - Minimal, Functional Entity Component System
• knife.system - Minimalist functional ECS
• tiny-ecs - Entity Component System for Lua that's simple, flexible, and useful

Helper Libraries

Game specific Library bundles, that provide reuseable functions

• astray - Astray is a lua based maze, room and dungeon generation library for dungeon crawlers and roguelike video games
• hump - Collection of tools for developing games with LÖVE (Gamestates, Timers/Tweens, Vectors, Classes, Signals, Cameras)
• knife - Collection of useful micro-modules for Lua (Class, State Machines, Bind, Chain, Coroutines, Event, Memoize, Entity, Tests, Timer)
• lovely-windows - A Window/Screen Manager Module for virtual windows.
• love-state-switcher - State switcher class for Lua LÖVE Engine
• lue - lue is a LÖVE library that allows you to display hue color effects in your game
• lume - Collection of functions for Lua, geared towards game development
• rotLove - Roguelike Toolkit in Love. A Love2D/lua port of rot.js
• ScreenManager - Screen/State Management for the LÖVE framework
• shack - shack is a LÖVE library that lets you easily add screen effects such as shake and rotation
• Simple Tiled Implementation - Tiled map loader and renderer
• Vivid - Color math, manipulation and conversion library

Input

Input & Binding Libraries

• baton - Input library for LÖVE that bridges the gap between keyboard and gamepad controls
• boipushy - A simple and easy to use input handler
• love-microphone - Simple microphone support for LÖVE
• tactile - A straightforward and flexible input library

Lighting

Lighting & Shadow Libraries

• Shädows - A Shadows & Lights engine for löve
• Light World - A lighting model
• Simple Love Lights - A very simple raycasting light implementation

Math

Math specific Libraries

• Bresenham - Bresenham's line algorithm written in Lua
• brinevector - Standalone lightweight luajit ffi-accelerated 2D vector library for great performance
• Cirno's Perfect Math Library - Math/intersection library designed for games
• delaunay - Delaunay triangulation for convex polygons
• hump.vector - Powerful 2D vector class
• MLib - Math and shape-intersection detection library written in Lua. It's aim is to be robust and easy to use

Music

Music related libraries

• wave - A sound manager with audio parsing and rhythm functionalities
• denver - A Löve custom waveform generation library

Networking

Networking & Online-Play Libraries

• Grease - Networking library intended to make networking easy for lovers (TCP, UDP, Enet) [IPv6]
• LoverNet - A networking library that leverages bitser and enet [IPv4]
• NoobHub - OpenSource multiplayer and network messaging [IPv6]
• Sock.lua - A Lua networking library for LÖVE games [IPv4]

Object Orientation

Object Orientation Libraries that support Class-Commons

• 30log - Minified framework for object-orientation in Lua. It features named (and unnamed) classes, single inheritance and a basic support for mixins
• classic - 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)
• knife.base - Extremely minimal base class providing single inheritance and constructors.
• middleclass - Simple OOP library for Lua; has inheritance, metamethods (operators), class variables and weak mixin support (class-commons)

Performance

Performance measurement tools

• jprof - Profiling library/tool for LÖVE
• Piefiller - Graphical profiler for LÖVE
• profile.lua - Profile.lua is a small, non-intrusive module for finding bottlenecks in your Lua code
• ProFi - A simple lua profiler that works with LuaJIT and prints a pretty report file in columns

Physics

Collision Detection & Physics Wrappers

• Bump - Collision detection library for Lua
• HC - Collision detection with arbitrary polygons; allows rotation of objects
• loveblobs - A softbody library with support for both dynamic and static arbitrary softbodies.
• Windfield - Physics module wrapper for LÖVE

Platforms

Ports for Platforms other than Windows, Mac and Linux

• LoveDos - 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 - Unofficial work-in-progress implementation of the LÖVE API for 3DS Homebrew
• Love.js - LÖVE ported to the web using Emscripten
• LÖVR - LÖVE for virtual reality devices

Publishing

Guides to distributing LÖVE games in 3rd party stores

• Love-Snap-Template - A template for packaging LÖVE games for distribution in the Snappy Store
• AppImageKit - 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

Save Game & Storage Libraries

• binser - Customizable Lua Serializer
• bitser - Serializes and deserializes Lua values with LuaJIT
• cdata - Serialize between Lua data and C data using LuaJIT's FFI
• knife.serialize - Serialize data as a Lua script
• Lady - Saving and loading savegames; based on Ser
• Ser - Fast, robust, richly-featured table serialization library for Lua
• Smallfolk - A fast, robust, secure, richly-featured table serialization library for Lua
• trickle - A bitstream library focused on high compression for use in networking

Shaders

GLSL related Libraries

• LoveShaderConverter - 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
• Moonshine - Repository of common post-processing effects like blur, vignette, color-grading, etc.

Testing

Libraries and Tools for Unit Testing

• busted - Simple unit-testing framework with customizable assertions
• knife.test - Fixture-free test framework
• Luassert - Extends assert() with additional, customizable tests
• lua-TestMore - Port of Perl's Test::More package
• Lunatest - xUnit-style randomized unit testing framework
• lust - Minimal test framework
• Specl - Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tool
• Telescope - Highly-customizable BDD-style testing library

Tweening

Smoothing & Timer Libraries

• Flux - A fast, lightweight tweening library for Lua
• hump.timer - Timer and tweening library with flexible tweening methods
• knife.timer - Create timers and tweens with ease.
• tween.lua - Tweening/Easing/Interpolating functions for Lua inspired on jQuery's animate method

UI

User Interface Libraries

• CatUI - A very light-weight GUI library for LÖVE
• GOOi - Android-oriented GUI library
• Gspöt - A stateful GUI lib for LÖVE
• LoveFrames Fork - 0.10 Fork of a GUI library
• Love Imgui - imgui module for the LÖVE game engine
• Löve-Nuklear - Lightweight immediate mode GUI for LÖVE games
• Patchy - 9patch library
• Polywell - A highly-configurable text editor / coding tool written in Lua that runs on the LÖVE game engine.
• SafeWord - An overscan detection library for LÖVE
• SUIT - small immediate mode GUI library
• ListBox - A dynamic ListBox for LÖVE that supports touch, mouse, and keyboard inputs

Utilities

Non-Game specific Library bundles, that provide reuseable functions

• ArrayRotation - Rotation of two dimensional arrays (square and non-square)
• cargo - Asset manager
• chance.lua - Library for generating random data
• GifCat - A simple module for saving gifs from LÖVE
• i18n - Internationalization library designed to help localize your game
• log.lua - Library for configurable log output
• love-loader - Threaded resource loading
• love2d-assets-loader - Assets Loader
• Lily - Async Asset Loader
• Luvent - Simple event-driven programming
• splashy - Splash Screen Library
• Talkback - Observer pattern library with two-way communication
• tick - Useful timing tweaks for LÖVE's run loop

Tutorials

Blogs and tutorials

• SSYGEN's - A blog by SSYGEN with articles about game development using LÖVE
• Using Tiled Maps in LÖVE - An article about using maps created with Tiled in your LÖVE game
• Tutorial on making an Arkanoid-type game - 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
• Introduction to Game Development - Harvard College’s CS50 extension (Spring 2018)

IDEs

Integrated Development Enviroments and text editor plugins

• Atom - A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

  • 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 - 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

  • Lua Syntax Highlighter - Add Lua syntax highlighting in Brackets
  • LÖVE Hints for Brackets.io - Provides LÖVE code hints
  • Run LÖVE - Run LÖVE projects with a hotkey

• ZeroBrane Studio - ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, code analyzer, and debugging support

• IntelliJ IDEA - Capable and Ergonomic Java IDE

  • Lua for IDEA - Lua plugin for IntelliJ-IDEA
  • LÖVE IDEA - 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 - Syntax highlighting for Vim

• Notepad++ - Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages

  • LÖVE API for Notepad++ - Code completion and documentation for Notepad++

• 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

• 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.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Other Awesome Lists

• awesome-lua - A list like this one, but more general and encompassing all of Lua's uses
• awesome-love-shaders - A collection of shaders designed to work in LÖVE
• awesome-pico8 - A curated list of PICO-8 resources, tutorials, tools and more

Other awesome lists can be found in the awesome-awesomeness list.