Love Game Engine

Download

Go to the main site for the Love engine:

love2d.org

Getting Started

Making a Game

To make a minimal game, create a folder anywhere, and open up your favorite text editor. Sublime Text is a pretty good one for all operating systems, and it has Lua support built in.

Create a new file in the folder you just created, and name it main.lua.

Put the following code in the file, and save it:

function love.load()
    -- use to set up your game
end

function love.draw()
    love.graphics.print("Hello World", 400, 300)
end

Running Games

Within Windows, ZeroBrane Studio, Sublime Text 2, Notepad++, and SciTE allow you to launch the game from within their code editors.

Otherwise, the easiest way to run the game is to drag the folder onto either love.exe or a shortcut to love.exe. Remember to drag the folder containing main.lua, and not main.lua itself.

You can create a shortcut to do this; simply make a shortcut to love.exe, right-click on it and select 'Send to Destop' to create a shortcut:

On Windows, there is a special command-line option which will attach a console to the window, allowing you to see the result of print calls. So right click your shortcut, choose 'properties', and edit the target to include '--console' eg:

"C:\Program Files\LOVE\love.exe" --console

Tutorials

Here is the link for the tutorial on the Love wiki site:

Love tutorials