Love Game Engine
Download
Go to the main site for the Love engine:
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
LÖVE can load a game in two ways:
- From a folder that contains a main.lua file.
- From a .love file that has a main.lua file in the top-most directory level (aka root)
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 also launch the game from the command line:
"C:\Program Files\LOVE\love.exe" "C:\games\mygame" "C:\Program Files\LOVE\love.exe" "C:\games\packagedgame.love"
You can create a shortcut to do this; simply make a shortcut to love.exe, right-click on it and select "Properties", and then put the command line you want in the "Target" box for the 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 (equivalent to setting t.console=true in conf.lua):
"C:\Program Files\LOVE\love.exe" --console
Tutorials
Here is the link for the tutorial on the Love wiki site:
