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

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
• Game Distribution Tools

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
• g3d - Simple and easy 3D engine for LÖVE.
• 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
• lovanim - A minimal stateful animation library
• SYSL-Text - Text animation and automatic wrapping library based on tags

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

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
• 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
• 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

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

• 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

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
• love2d-lua-websocket - A simple event-driven websocket client library [IPv4]

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

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

• 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

Shaders

GLSL related Libraries

• LoveShaderConverter - Convert Shadertoy Shader files to LÖVE GLSL Files with handy utilities for infinite purposes
• ngrading - Simple color grading library.
• 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
• NLay - Flexible layouting library.
• 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.
• Helium - A modern, customizable, high performance retained UI framework.

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
• lovely-engine - A tool that makes setting up and using Love2d easier and with Moonscript support
• 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
• require.lua - Require all files in a folder
• 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.

Game Distribution Tools

Tools that automate game publishing in one way or another

• 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.
• makelove - Advanced multi-platform tool to fuse your game written in Python 3. Supports Windows and Linux with AppImage.
• love-deploy - Build and deploy games on itch.io (supports windows and web exports)

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Other Awesome Lists

• 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

Other awesome lists can be found in the awesome-awesomeness list.