Awesome Löve

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

3D
AI
Animation
Camera
Development
Drawing
Entity
Helpers
Input
Lighting
Math
Music
Networking
OO
Performance
Physics
Platforms
Publishing
Serialization
Shaders
Testing
Tweening
UI
Utilities
Tutorials
IDEs
Distribution
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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.
Menori - Library for 3D rendering with LÖVE.

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 (grid, point, mesh or infinite map) and support path cost.
pathfun - Pure Lua library for 2D pathfinding using the funnel algorithm.
beehive.lua - A functional behavior tree implementation.
Luafinding - Class-based A* implementation written purely in Lua.

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!.
Aseprite loader - Complete ase/aseprite file loader (no json).
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.
cam11 - Camera library that leverages the Transform object introduced in love2d 11.0+.
Editgrid - Gamera and HUMP compatible scaling grid.
gamera - Camera system.
hump.camera - Camera library with window locking and smooth camera movement interpolation.
parallax - Parallax scrolling with any camera system; seamlessly tile background images.

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 LÖVE live reloader with Moonscript support.
loveprofiler - LoveProfiler is an extremely simple logger and profiler.
vudu - Broad in-game debugging gui with a console, variable browser/editor, speed controls, and more.

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.
deep - Adds Z axis; allows you to queue actions and draw calls.
draft - A module for drawing complex shapes.
grove.draworder - Similar to deep, but you can set a custom sorting method and create multiple, nestable instances.
Hot particles - "Hot Particles is a particle editor for the LÖVE game framework."
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.
Resolution Solution - Scale library, that help you add resolution support to your games!
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.
ecs-lua - ECS Lua is a fast and easy to use ECS (Entity Component System) engine for game development.
knife.system - Minimalist functional ECS.
nata - Hybrid OOP/ECS entity management.
tiny-ecs - Entity Component System for Lua that's simple, flexible, and useful.

Helpers

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.
grove.color - Blend, convert and interpolate colors using 'color objects'.
hump - Collection of tools for developing games with LÖVE (Gamestates, Timers/Tweens, Vectors, Classes, Signals, Cameras).
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.
lua-state-machine - Lua Finite State Machine.
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.
Manami - An improved "reflowprint" with UTF-8, multicolor, and justify support.
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 LÖVE. A LÖVE/lua port of rot.js.
YAS - Yet Another Screen manager.
Scenery - A dead simple scene/state management system.
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.
GameStateManager - A lightweight, optimized, and easy-to-implement solution for efficient game state management.

Input

Input & Binding Libraries

baton - Input library for LÖVE that bridges the gap between keyboard and gamepad controls.
GamepadGuesser - Get the right button icons for gamepads; load updated gamepad db.
input - Simple and powerful input library. support check operation time, sequence.
Kazari - Multitouch gesture and input library.
love-microphone - Simple microphone support for LÖVE.
LoveKeys - A simple input handeling library that keeps track of things for you.
Swipe - A simple radial keyboard library.
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.

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