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

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 ★18 ⏳1Y - 3D skeletal animation library (design to be used with IQM and IQE)
bump-3dpd ★17 - A 3D collision detection library for Lua.
IQE ★10 ⏳2Y - Inter-Quake Export loader (text)
IQM ★19 ⏳2Y - Inter-Quake Model loader (binary)
LÖVE3D ★147 - 3D extensions to LÖVE
Lovox ★27 - Pseudo-3D library for working with voxels
Brinevector3D ★1 - FFI-enabled vector library for 3D (x,y,z)

AI

Navigation, Decision-Making and AI Libraries

Jumper ★448 - Grid-based pathfinding library

Animation

Animation & Frame-Managing Libraries

andross ★11 - a Lua library for 2D skeletal/bone animations with a Löve backend
anim8 ★314 - Animation library
chiro ★15 - Convenience wrapper around Spine
Peachy ★9 - A parser/renderer for Aseprite animations in LÖVE
skeletor ★13 ⏳2Y - 2D skeletal animation system
Walt ★35 - Animation library
Lump ★16 ⏳2Y - Adobe Flash animation runtime

Camera

Viewport & Camera Libraries

Brady ★36 ⏳1Y - Camera library with parallax scrolling
Editgrid ★25 ⏳2Y - Gamera and HUMP compatible scaling grid
gamera ★124 - Camera system
hump.camera - Camera library with window locking and smooth camera movement interpolation
STALKER-X ★79 - STALKER-X is a camera module for LÖVE

Development

Development assisting Libraries, that enrich your development experience

FPSGraph ★11 ⏳4Y - Small FPS graphing utility
debugGraph ★22 - Small OO FPS graphing utillity based on FPSGraph
Lovebird ★172 - Browser-based debug console
LoveDebug ★66 - Inline console-like debugger utility
lurker ★133 - Auto-swaps changed Lua files in a running game
LÖVE API ★113 - The complete API documentation of LÖVE in a Lua table
MakeLove ★1 - Automated build creation for your projects, by monitoring changes in real-time (Windows Only)

Drawing

Drawing specific Libraries, that simplify the Drawing process

draft ★22 ⏳2Y - A module for drawing complex shapes
Artal ★27 - A .PSD parsing library for LÖVE
Autobatch ★49 - Small LÖVE module to automate the use of SpriteBatches
HSLUV ★15 ⏳1Y - Lua implementation of HSLuv (a human-friendly alternative to HSL)
Maid64 ★23 - Low resolution scaler for LÖVE
Möan.lua - Multiple-choice VN-esque messagebox library for LÖVE
renderplanet ★11 - realistic orthographic planet rendering
Sölar ★1 ⏳1Y - a fairly simple solar system simulator
svglover ★24 - Library to import and display simple SVGs in LÖVE
Tove2d ★5 - Animated vector graphics for LÖVE
deep ★8 - Adds Z axis; allows you to queue actions and draw calls

Entity

Entity and Gameobject Managing Libraries

adorbs ★16 - Minimal, Functional Entity Component System
knife.system - Minimalist functional ECS
nata ★4 - Hybrid OOP/ECS entity management
tiny-ecs ★160 - Entity Component System for Lua that’s simple, flexible, and useful

Helper Libraries

Game specific Library bundles, that provide reuseable functions

astray ★60 ⏳1Y - Astray is a lua based maze, room and dungeon generation library for dungeon crawlers and roguelike video games
cartographer ★14 - Small Tiled map loader and drawer.
hump ★499 - Collection of tools for developing games with LÖVE (Gamestates, Timers/Tweens, Vectors, Classes, Signals, Cameras)
knife ★145 ⏳1Y - Collection of useful micro-modules for Lua (Class, State Machines, Bind, Chain, Coroutines, Event, Memoize, Entity, Tests, Timer)
lovely-windows ★4 ⏳1Y - A Window/Screen Manager Module for virtual windows.
love-state-switcher ★6 ⏳1Y - State switcher class for Lua LÖVE Engine
lue ★29 ⏳1Y - lue is a LÖVE library that allows you to display hue color effects in your game
lume ★282 - Collection of functions for Lua, geared towards game development
rotLove ★129 - Roguelike Toolkit in Love. A Love2D/lua port of rot.js
ScreenManager ★23 - Screen/State Management for the LÖVE framework
shack ★28 ⏳2Y - shack is a LÖVE library that lets you easily add screen effects such as shake and rotation
Simple Tiled Implementation ★355 - Tiled map loader and renderer
Vivid ★31 ⏳2Y - Color math, manipulation and conversion library

Input

Input & Binding Libraries

baton ★59 - Input library for LÖVE that bridges the gap between keyboard and gamepad controls
boipushy ★87 - A simple and easy to use input handler
love-microphone ★48 - Simple microphone support for LÖVE
tactile ★40 - A straightforward and flexible input library

Lighting

Lighting & Shadow Libraries

Shädows ★76 - A Shadows & Lights engine for löve
Light World ★179 - A lighting model
Simple Love Lights ★10 - A very simple raycasting light implementation

Math

Math specific Libraries

Bresenham ★4 ⏳1Y - Bresenham’s line algorithm written in Lua
brinevector ★10 - Standalone lightweight luajit ffi-accelerated 2D vector library for great performance
Cirno’s Perfect Math Library ★108 - Math/intersection library designed for games
delaunay ★63 - Delaunay triangulation for convex polygons
hump.vector - Powerful 2D vector class
MLib ★47 - Math and shape-intersection detection library written in Lua. It’s aim is to be robust and easy to use
shash ★17 ⏳1Y - A simple, lightweight spatial hash for Lua

Music

Music related libraries

denver ★38 ⏳2Y - A Löve custom waveform generation library
lovebpm ★20 ⏳2Y - A LÖVE library for syncing events to the BPM of an audio track
wave ★55 - A sound manager with audio parsing and rhythm functionalities

Networking

Networking & Online-Play Libraries

Grease - Networking library intended to make networking easy for lovers (TCP, UDP, Enet) [IPv6]
LoverNet ★33 - A networking library that leverages bitser and enet [IPv4]
NoobHub ★191 - OpenSource multiplayer and network messaging [IPv6]
Sock.lua ★69 - A Lua networking library for LÖVE games [IPv4]
löve-ws ★1 - A websocket client and server library

Object Orientation

Object Orientation Libraries that support Class-Commons ★36

30log ★249 - Minified framework for object-orientation in Lua. It features named (and unnamed) classes, single inheritance and a basic support for mixins
classic ★230 - 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 ★975 - Simple OOP library for Lua; has inheritance, metamethods (operators), class variables and weak mixin support (class-commons)

Performance

Performance measurement tools

jprof ★31 - Profiling library/tool for LÖVE
Piefiller ★10 - 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 ★438 - Collision detection library for Lua
HC - Collision detection with arbitrary polygons; allows rotation of objects
loveblobs ★15 - A softbody library with support for both dynamic and static arbitrary softbodies.
Windfield ★120 - Physics module wrapper for LÖVE

Platforms

Ports for Platforms other than Windows, Mac and Linux

LoveDos ★464 ⏳1Y - 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 ★139 ⏳1Y - Unofficial work-in-progress implementation of the LÖVE API for 3DS Homebrew
Love.js ★314 - LÖVE ported to the web using Emscripten
LÖVR ★316 - LÖVE for virtual reality devices

Publishing

Guides to distributing LÖVE games in 3rd party stores

Love-Snap-Template ★16 ⏳1Y - A template for packaging LÖVE games for distribution in the Snappy Store
AppImageKit ★3139 - 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 ★72 ⏳1Y - Customizable Lua Serializer
bitser ★63 - Serializes and deserializes Lua values with LuaJIT
cdata ★24 ⏳2Y - Serialize between Lua data and C data using LuaJIT’s FFI
knife.serialize - Serialize data as a Lua script
Lady ★27 ⏳2Y - Saving and loading savegames; based on Ser
Ser ★52 ⏳2Y - Fast, robust, richly-featured table serialization library for Lua
Smallfolk ★11 ⏳2Y - A fast, robust, secure, richly-featured table serialization library for Lua
trickle ★20 ⏳1Y - A bitstream library focused on high compression for use in networking

Shaders

GLSL related Libraries

LoveShaderConverter ★34 ⏳2Y - 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 ★239 - 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 ★54 - Extends assert() with additional, customizable tests
lua-TestMore - Port of Perl’s Test::More package
Lunatest ★63 ⏳3Y - xUnit-style randomized unit testing framework
lust ★30 ⏳1Y - Minimal test framework
Specl - Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tool
Telescope - Highly-customizable BDD-style testing library

Tweening

Smoothing & Timer Libraries

Flux ★150 ⏳2Y - 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.
tick ★28 ⏳3Y - Lua module for delaying function calls
tween.lua ★303 ⏳2Y - Tweening/Easing/Interpolating functions for Lua inspired on jQuery’s animate method

UI

User Interface Libraries

CatUI ★26 - A very light-weight GUI library for LÖVE
GOOi ★114 - Android-oriented GUI library
Gspöt ★26 - A stateful GUI lib for LÖVE
LoveFrames Fork - 0.10 Fork of a GUI library
Love Imgui ★159 - imgui module for the LÖVE game engine
Löve-Nuklear ★146 - Lightweight immediate mode GUI for LÖVE games
Patchy ★19 ⏳2Y - 9patch library
Polywell - A highly-configurable text editor / coding tool written in Lua that runs on the LÖVE game engine.
SafeWord ★2 ⏳2Y - An overscan detection library for LÖVE
SUIT ★273 - small immediate mode GUI library
ListBox ★8 ⏳1Y - 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 ★80 - Asset manager
chance.lua - Library for generating random data
GifCat ★31 ⏳1Y - A simple module for saving gifs from LÖVE
i18n ★9 ⏳2Y - Internationalization library designed to help localize your game
log.lua ★116 - Library for configurable log output
love-loader ★88 - Threaded resource loading
love2d-assets-loader ★27 ⏳2Y - Assets Loader
love-pe ★3 - A tool made in LÖVE for changing LÖVE icon itself
Lily ★39 - Async Asset Loader
Luvent ★44 ⏳3Y - Simple event-driven programming
splashy ★14 - Splash Screen Library
tick ★23 ⏳1Y - Useful timing tweaks for LÖVE’s run loop

Tutorials

Blogs and tutorials

SSYGEN’s ★2049 - 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 ★10 - 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 ★3 ⏳1Y - Add Lua syntax highlighting in Brackets
- LÖVE Hints for Brackets.io - Provides LÖVE code hints
- Run LÖVE ★2 - 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
- API Syntax Hightlight ★4 - Script to add LOVE API syntax highlighting to ZBS.
IntelliJ IDEA - Capable and Ergonomic Java IDE
- Lua for IDEA - Lua plugin for IntelliJ-IDEA
- LÖVE IDEA ★37 ⏳1Y - 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 ★20 - Syntax highlighting for Vim
Notepad++ - Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages
- LÖVE API for Notepad++ ★8 ⏳1Y - 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 ★1706 - A list like this one, but more general and encompassing all of Lua’s uses
awesome-love-shaders ★38 ⏳2Y - A collection of shaders designed to work in LÖVE
awesome-pico8 - A curated list of PICO-8 resources, tutorials, tools and more

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