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

• 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)
• love-gltf – gltf asset loader and test renderer; Supports skeletal animations and morph targets
• Lovox – Pseudo-3D library for working with voxels
• ss3d – a simple and easy 3d engine for love2d
• model_renderer – a simple 3d model renderer for love2d

AI

Navigation, Decision-Making and AI Libraries

• Jumper – Grid-based pathfinding library
• Lua-star – Easy and pure Lua A* path finding
• astar – An other A* library. Any map(gird, point, mesh or infinite map) and support path cost.

Animation

Animation & Frame-Managing Libraries

• 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!
• chiro – Convenience wrapper around Spine
• Peachy – A parser/renderer for Aseprite animations in LÖVE
• 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
• 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
• MakeLove – Automated build creation for your projects, by monitoring changes in real-time (Windows Only)
• boon – A cross-platform build tool for LÖVE
• lovelier – A Love2D live reloader with Moonscript support

Drawing

Drawing specific Libraries, that simplify the Drawing process

• 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
• cindy – Use byte color values in LÖVE 11+
• deep – Adds Z axis; allows you to queue actions and draw calls
• draft – A module for drawing complex shapes
• 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
• 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

Entity

Entity and Gameobject Managing Libraries

• adorbs – Minimal, Functional Entity Component System
• Concord – A feature-complete ECS library
• knife.system – Minimalist functional ECS
• nata – Hybrid OOP/ECS entity management
• 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
• 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
• hump – Collection of tools for developing games with LÖVE (Gamestates, Timers/Tweens, Vectors, Classes, Signals, Cameras). Repo is inactive but improvements are in the works at this fork (branch temp-master)
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Yonder – A ridiculously easy to use game state management library for LOVE2D

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
• LoveKeys – A simple input handeling library that keeps track of things for you
• 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
• Light – A simple dynamic 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
• 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

Music

Music related libraries

• 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

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]
• löve-ws – A websocket client and server library

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)
• muun – Moonscript compatible class implementation
• selene – Project template for writing games in Moonscript instead of Lua without precompiling

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

• breezefield – A lightweight and easy love.physics wrapper [windfield alternative]
• 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 Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch 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
• 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

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
• 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.
• tick – Lua module for delaying function calls
• 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
• Hanker – Maximalist immediate mode-ish UI elements; gamepad-friendly
• 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
• 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
• Slab – Slab is an immediate mode GUI toolkit for the LÖVE framework.
• SUIT – small immediate mode GUI library
• ListBox – A dynamic ListBox for LÖVE that supports touch, mouse, and keyboard inputs
• Lynx – Very-lightweight list-based UI library.
• YALG – A very simple, cross-platform, reactive UI for last minute UIs.

Utilities

Non-Game specific libraries and tools

• ArrayRotation – Rotation of two dimensional arrays (square and non-square)
• cargo – Asset manager
• chance.lua – 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
• log.lua – Library for configurable log output
• love-loader – Threaded resource loading
• love2d-assets-loader – Assets Loader
• love-pe – A tool made in LÖVE for changing LÖVE icon itself
• Lily – Async Asset Loader
• 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
• Optikon – WYSIWYG visual level designer
• ParticleEditor – An editor of particle for LÖVE
• particle-system-playground – A basic LÖVE particle system editor
• splashy – Splash Screen Library
• ShakeDetectorLua – uses accelerometer data for shake device detection written in Lua
• tick – Useful timing tweaks for LÖVE’s run loop

Tutorials

Blogs and tutorials

• adnzzzzZ’s – A blog by adnzzzzZ with articles about game development using LÖVE
• learn2love – Book for learning programming with Lua and LÖVE (Version 11.0+)
• 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
• CS50’s Introduction to Game Development – Harvard College’s CS50 OpenCourseWare
• Building love2d games for the web with love.js and Docker – A tutorial on packaging LÖVE games for the web

IDEs

Integrated Development Environments 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
  • API Syntax Hightlight – Script to add LOVE API syntax highlighting to ZBS.
• IntelliJ IDEA – Capable and Ergonomic Java IDE
  • EmmyLua – Lua IDE/Debugger Plugin for VSCode
  • 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
  • Local Lua Debugger – Simple Lua debugger with no dependencies. Löve specific launch.json example provided.
• 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.

Other Awesome Lists

• awesome-lua – A list like this one, but more general and encompassing all of Lua’s uses
• awesome-unity