awesome-love2d

3DreamEngine

An awesome 3D engine for LÖVE

anim9

3D skeletal animation library (design to be used with IQM and IQE)

Brinevector3D

FFI-enabled vector library for 3D (x,y,z)

bump-3dpd

A 3D collision detection library for Lua

IQE

Inter-Quake Export loader (text)

IQM

Inter-Quake Model loader (binary)

Gltf asset loader and test renderer; Supports skeletal animations and morph targets

Lovox

Pseudo-3D library for working with voxels

g3d

Simple and easy 3D engine for LÖVE

Menori

Library for 3D rendering with LÖVE

Jumper

Grid-based pathfinding library

Lua-star

Easy and pure Lua A* path finding

astar

An other A* library. Any map (grid, point, mesh or infinite map) and support path cost

Pure Lua library for 2D pathfinding using the funnel algorithm

beehive.lua

A functional behavior tree implementation

Luafinding

Class-based A* implementation written purely in Lua

andross

A Lua library for 2D skeletal/bone animations with a Löve backend

anim8

Animation library

animx

A featureful Animation library for loading animations from XML files!

Aseprite loader

Complete ase/aseprite file loader (no json)

chiro

Convenience wrapper around

Peachy

A parser/renderer for Aseprite animations in LÖVE

skeletor

2D skeletal animation system

Walt

Animation library

Lump

Adobe Flash animation runtime

lovanim

A minimal stateful animation library

SYSL-Text

Text animation and automatic wrapping library based on tags

Brady

Camera library with parallax scrolling

Camera library that leverages the Transform object introduced in love2d 11.0+

Editgrid

Gamera and HUMP compatible scaling grid

gamera

Camera system

Camera library with window locking and smooth camera movement interpolation

parallax

Parallax scrolling with any camera system; seamlessly tile background images

FPSGraph

Small FPS graphing utility

debugGraph

Small OO FPS graphing utillity based on FPSGraph

Lovebird

Browser-based debug console

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

LÖVE Build

GitHub Action for automated cross-platform builds

LÖVE TypeScript Definitions

Write LÖVE games with TypeScript

lovelier

A LÖVE live reloader with Moonscript support

loveprofiler

LoveProfiler is an extremely simple logger and profiler

vudu

Broad in-game debugging gui with a console, variable browser/editor, speed controls, and more

Artal

A .PSD parsing library for LÖVE

Autobatch

Small LÖVE module to automate the use of SpriteBatches

center

A simple module to dynamically align and fit content to screens of any size

deep

Adds Z axis; allows you to queue actions and draw calls

draft

A module for drawing complex shapes

grove.draworder

Similar to deep, but you can set a custom sorting method and create multiple, nestable instances

Hot particles

"Hot Particles is a particle editor for the LÖVE game framework."

HSLUV

Lua implementation of HSLuv (a human-friendly alternative to HSL)

Maid64

Low resolution scaler for LÖVE

Push

A simple resolution-handling library for LÖVE

renderplanet

Realistic orthographic planet rendering

Resolution Solution

Scale library, that help you add resolution support to your games!

svglover

Library to import and display simple SVGs in LÖVE

SYSL-Pixel

Pixel art focused scaler for graphics, position, screen-captures and shaders

Sölar

A fairly simple solar system simulator

Tove2d

Animated vector graphics for LÖVE

turtle.lua

Turtle graphics library for LÖVE

Runtime-TextureAtlas

Texture atlas packer and renderer at runtime; no external tools

Export-TextureAtlas

Extends Runtime-TextureAtlas as a commandline tool to export an atlas

adorbs

Minimal, Functional Entity Component System

Concord

A feature-complete ECS library

ecs-lua

ECS Lua is a fast and easy to use ECS (Entity Component System) engine for game development

knife.system

Minimalist functional ECS

nata

Hybrid OOP/ECS entity management

tiny-ecs

Entity Component System for Lua that's simple, flexible, and useful

astray

Astray is a lua based maze, room and dungeon generation library for dungeon crawlers and roguelike video games

batteries

Fills out lua's sparse standard library and provides implementations of common algorithms and data structures useful for games

cartographer

Small Tiled map loader and drawer

clove

A helper library which allows you to quickly loads huge amount of assets

grove.color

Blend, convert and interpolate colors using 'color objects'

hump

Collection of tools for developing games with LÖVE (Gamestates, Timers/Tweens, Vectors, Classes, Signals, Cameras)

iffy

A SpriteSheet and Tileset helper library for LÖVE

knife

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

shard

Collection of useful mini modules

lovely-windows

A Window/Screen Manager Module for virtual windows

love-state-switcher

State switcher class for Lua LÖVE Engine

lua-state-machine

Lua Finite State Machine

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

Manami

An improved "reflowprint" with UTF-8, multicolor, and justify support

narrator

An Ink narrative scripting language parser and runtime implementation

reflowprint

A library designed for alignment of text that is shown one character at a time

roomy

Screen management library for LÖVE

rotLove

Roguelike Toolkit in LÖVE. A LÖVE/lua port of rot.js

YAS

Yet Another Screen manager

SceneMan

A simple, but powerful scene/gamestate manager that uses a stack, allowing you to run multiple scenes at once

Scenery

A dead simple scene/state management system

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

Yonder

A ridiculously easy to use game state management library for LOVE2D

GameStateManager

A lightweight, optimized, and easy-to-implement solution for efficient game state management

Love dialogue

Simple to use Dialogue Library for Love2d with custom scripting language for dialogues

baton

Input library for LÖVE that bridges the gap between keyboard and gamepad controls

GamepadGuesser

Get the right button icons for gamepads; load updated gamepad db

input

Simple and powerful input library. support check operation time, sequence

Kazari

Multitouch gesture and input library

love-microphone

Simple microphone support for LÖVE

LoveKeys

A simple input handeling library that keeps track of things for you

Swipe

A simple radial keyboard library

tactile

A straightforward and flexible input library

lighter

A performant dynamic light implementation with a simple API

Shädows

A Shadows & Lights engine for LÖVE

Light World

A lighting model

Simple Love Lights

A very simple raycasting light implementation

Light

A simple dynamic light implementation

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

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

nvec

Hump.vector-compatible LuaJIT FFI-accelerated 2D vector library

shash

A simple, lightweight spatial hash for Lua

vector.lua

A simple vector library based on the PVector class from processing

denver

A Löve custom waveform generation library

lovebpm

A LÖVE library for syncing events to the BPM of an audio track

ripple

An audio manager with tagging support

wave

A sound manager with audio parsing and rhythm functionalities

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)

löve-ws

A websocket client and server library

love2d-lua-websocket

A simple event-driven websocket client library. (IPv4)

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

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)

muun

Moonscript compatible class implementation

selene

Project template for writing games in Moonscript instead of Lua without precompiling

Object-Library

ObjectLibrary is a simple library for the LÖVE2D game engine that allows users to create objects with collision detection and optional textures

LowerClass

A MiddleClass Inspired library with extended features

AppleCake

Profiling library for LÖVE, with detailed profiling and thread support

jprof

Profiling library/tool for LÖVE

Piefiller

Graphical profiler for LÖVE

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

breezefield

A lightweight and easy love.physics wrapper (windfield alternative)

Bump

Collision detection library for Lua

Collision detection with arbitrary polygons; allows rotation of objects

A softbody library with support for both dynamic and static arbitrary softbodies

Strike

2D collision detection library. Extendable, based on Separating-Axis-Theorem

LoveDos

A Lua framework for 2D DOS games, implementing a subset of the LÖVE API

Work-in-progress port to Windows phone 8.1

LÖVE Potion

Unofficial implementation of the LÖVE for Nintendo (3DS, Switch and Wii U) Homebrew

LOVE-WrapLua

A small and simple wrapper for OneLua, lpp-vita, and Lua Player PS3

Love.js

LÖVE ported to the web using Emscripten

LÖVR

LÖVE for virtual reality devices

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

arson

Companion library for registering custom data types that can be encoded and decoded by json.lua

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

moonblob

Binary serialization and data parsing library

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

LoveShaderConverter

Convert Shadertoy Shader files to LÖVE GLSL Files with handy utilities for infinite purposes

ngrading

Simple color grading library

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

ShaderScan

Adds hot reload, includes, and better error messages for faster shader iteration

busted

Simple unit-testing framework with customizable assertions

knife.test

Fixture-free test framework

Luassert

Extends with additional, customizable tests

Lunatest

xUnit-style randomized unit testing framework

lust

Minimal test framework

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tool

Highly-customizable BDD-style testing library

Flux

A fast, lightweight tweening library for Lua

Timer and tweening library with flexible tweening methods

knife.timer

Create timers and tweens with ease

NAniTe

Timeline-based animation system that supports forward and backward update

tick

Lua module for delaying function calls

tween.lua

Tweening/Easing/Interpolating functions for Lua inspired on jQuery's animate method

CatUI

A very light-weight GUI library for LÖVE

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

GOOi

Android-oriented GUI library

A stateful GUI lib for LÖVE

Maximalist immediate mode-ish UI elements; gamepad-friendly

Helium

A modern, customizable, high performance retained UI framework

Layouter

A simple UI library for LÖVE 2D game engine

ListBox

A dynamic ListBox for LÖVE that supports touch, mouse, and keyboard inputs

LoveFrames Fork

11.2 Fork of a GUI library

Love Imgui

Imgui module for the LÖVE game engine

Löve-Nuklear

Lightweight immediate mode GUI for LÖVE games

Floating speech bubbles with text of your choice

lovr-ui2d

An immediate mode GUI library for LÖVR and LÖVE

Very-lightweight list-based UI library

NLay

Flexible layouting library

Patchy

9patch library

Slicy

A newer 9patch/9slice library fixing some issues with Patchy

Plan

A super simple Rule-based layout library

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

SafeWord

An overscan detection library for LÖVE

Slab

Slab is an immediate mode GUI toolkit for the LÖVE framework

SUIT

Small immediate mode GUI library

TuxRedux

An immediate-mode UI system for LOVE2D inspired by SUIT

YALG

A very simple, cross-platform, reactive UI for last minute UIs

Declarative UI library for LÖVE

Inky

Any-purpose GUI framework

Badar 🌕

Simple for easy components compositions

MeowUI

Extensible library written in MoonScript that enables you to create your own GUI controls based on provided core modules for Löve2D

andromeda

Asset database and loader for love

Rotation of two dimensional arrays (square and non-square)

bar128-love

Barcode rendering library for LÖVE

cargo

Asset manager

Library for generating random data

colorchanger

Change the colors in your LÖVE game

Flirt

LÖVE version manager; allows to switch between multiple versions of engine on same machine

GifCat

A simple module for saving gifs from LÖVE

hex2color

A single function to use HEX color values

i18n

Internationalization library designed to help localize your game

Ini Parser

General purpose ini configuration parser

KeyedArray

A special data structure where items can be found by their position or key. Similar to an ordered dictionary

log.lua

Library for configurable log output

love-loader

Threaded resource loading

love-qrcode

QR Code rendering library for LÖVE

love2d-assets-loader

Assets Loader

love-pe

A tool made in LÖVE for changing LÖVE icon itself

lovely-engine

A tool that makes setting up and using LÖVE easier and with Moonscript support

Lily

Async Asset Loader

LuaRequireExtended

A Lua module that lets you require files with input parameters and multiple output values

luasteam

Lua bindings for the Steamworks API

Luvent

Simple event-driven programming

nativefiledialog

Open a file picker on Windows/Mac/Linux

nativefs

Read and write files outside of LÖVE's allowed paths

ParticleEditor

An editor of particle for LÖVE

particle-system-playground

A basic LÖVE particle system editor

require.lua

Require all files in a folder

splashy

Splash Screen Library

ShakeDetectorLua

Uses accelerometer data for shake device detection written in Lua

Full-featured text editor for prose (not code)

tick

Useful timing tweaks for LÖVE's run loop

servelove

A web server library that runs on love

Book for learning programming with Lua and LÖVE (Version 11.0+)

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

Tutorials for making simple games with LÖVE (Snake, Sokoban, Tetris, etc.)

A book by Sheepolution teaching LÖVE from the ground up

Harvard Colleges CS50 OpenCourseWare

A tutorial on packaging LÖVE games for the web

A modern, open source text editor by Adobe (obsolete)

Lua Syntax Highlighter

Add Lua syntax highlighting in Brackets

Provides LÖVE code hints

Run LÖVE

Run LÖVE projects with a hotkey

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

API Syntax Hightlight

Script to add LOVE API syntax highlighting to ZBS

Capable and Ergonomic Java IDE

EmmyLua

Lua IDE/Debugger Plugin for VSCode

LÖVE IDEA

Snippets and code completion for IntelliJ-IDEA

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

LÖVE API for Notepad++

Code completion and documentation for Notepad++

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

A Löve Launcher Extension for Visual Studio Code

Provides Intellisense and Linting for Lua in VSCode

Simple Lua debugger with no dependencies. Löve specific launch.json example provided

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance

The Sublime Text package manager that makes it exceedingly simple to find, install and keep packages up-to-date

Supports syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and build system

Provides linting and static analysis of your Lua code

Hackable text editor based on the extinct Atom; Has great support and auto-completion works nicely, but for now lacks error highlighting

autocomplete-love

Auto-complete and snippets for LÖVE

love-ide

Auto-installs several utilities for writing Love2D games in Pulsar

language-lua

Add syntax highlighting and snippets to lua files

atom-autocomplete-lua

Autocomplete for Lua

Zed is a next-generation code editor designed for high-performance written in rust

love2z

Alejandro's Beta typing hints for Zed

love2d

LuaCATS typing hints for the lua language server

lover

Bringing the joys of rust's package manager ( ) to love

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

love-packager

Simple CLI to package your LÖVE Game in seconds

boon

Multi-platform, easy to use tool supporting Windows, macOS, Linux

love-export

Fast and simple command-line tool that builds binaries for you. Supports Windows, macOS, and Linux

love-release

A Lua script that automates game distribution. Supports Windows, macOS, Debian, Linux

lovesfx

Packs love games in a single file for windows

makelove

Advanced multi-platform tool to fuse your game written in Python 3. Supports Windows and Linux with AppImage

love-build

Downloadable application (made in LÖVE!) that can build games for Windows, macOS, and Linux regardless of your own OS

love-deploy

Build and deploy games on itch.io (supports windows and web exports)

love-fuser

Packages LÖVE Games using GitHub Actions. Supports Windows, Linux, and Android

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