LÖVE is a game framework which allows you to make your own 2D games with Lua. Your game can easily be played by anyone with LÖVE installed on their Windows, Mac or Linux computer.
It has support for many image and audio formats, physics, networking, particle effects, and also has some user-made libraries (downloaded separately) to make developing games even easier.

Useful links:
Forum
Wiki (also hosts documentation)
Bug tracker
IRC Channel (#love@freenode.net)

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Ace1214
Ace1214 - - 13 comments

this engine would be extremely cool if it had a built-in IDE that you could run the scripts through instantly, but i do see the challenges that that would make for the developers of love

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Editapp
Editapp - - 4 comments

Usually you can intergrate a build command for Love in lots of text editors, making it easy to package games instantly.

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ananasblau
ananasblau - - 9 comments

I prefer ot use my dear Vim for editing anything and I think most other people have their own choice of favourite editor.

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XHH
XHH - - 38 comments

I still cannot comprehend why people use Vi/Vim

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kjfytfkytfyt
kjfytfkytfyt - - 1,068 comments

That kind of sucks, that you have to have Love on your computer in order to play the games... i mean you should make it so the games can be run without having to have Love on your computer...

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flárátt_ljós
flárátt_ljós - - 38 comments

That's been possible since the dawn of time. It's up to the creator of the game if he wants to do that though.

Love2d.org

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adfjkndjklnhdfs - - 820 comments

"Your game can easily be played by anyone with LÖVE installed on their Windows, Mac or Linux computer." Says this engines description.

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qaisjp
qaisjp - - 7 comments

It's outdated, old versions required LOVE installed (or the binary); new versions allow lovers (us developers, not LOVE developers but game developers in love) to compile their project so you dont need love.

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Olku_
Olku_ - - 2,076 comments

Lövers

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ianna_keeper
ianna_keeper - - 279 comments

gonna give it a try soon.

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