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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Hello! We're Strangelet Games, a small indie team from Finland working on our first title, a turn-based, crime-themed 4X strategy/management game on PC, called ALL IN THE GAME. It's not an entirely ordinary strategy game, as it emphasizes intuitive, quick decisions over ponderous, deliberate ones. ALL IN THE GAME is specifically designed around fluid, streamlined gameplay and well-balanced multiplayer. Most matches last for hours instead of days, but there's still a lot of room for creative strategic maneuvers and player expression through the game's Principle system.
This April, we scrambled to make a playable demo for TurnBasedThursday (a game fest involving turn-based games) and noticed that people were quite curious about it! We decided to leave the demo up until our early-access launch date (June 25) so that anyone who's interested can try it out. The demo has all the features our the full game has, gets updated with new features and fixes. Our current playtesters use it as well, so getting into PvP action has never been easier - just load the free demo here and join our Discord Server!
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Built a game for LÖVE and want to support mods? Try mod.io, a cross-platform mod SDK created by IndieDB which makes it easy to get a mod community up and running in-game. Currently seeking games to integrate and promote
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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
Usually you can intergrate a build command for Love in lots of text editors, making it easy to package games instantly.
I prefer ot use my dear Vim for editing anything and I think most other people have their own choice of favourite editor.
I still cannot comprehend why people use Vi/Vim
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...
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
"Your game can easily be played by anyone with LÖVE installed on their Windows, Mac or Linux computer." Says this engines description.
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.
Lövers
gonna give it a try soon.