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

3D
AI
Animation
Camera
Development
Drawing
Entity
Helper Libraries
Input
Lighting
Math
Music
Networking
Object Orientation
Physics
Platforms
Serialization
Shaders
Testing
Tweening
UI
Utilities
Tutorials
IDEs

3D

3D-centric Libraries

anim9 - 3D skeletal animation library (design to be used with IQM and IQE)
IQE - Inter-Quake Export loader (text)
IQM - Inter-Quake Model loader (binary)
LÖVE3D - 3D extensions to LÖVE

AI

Navigation, Decision-Making and AI Libraries

Jumper - Grid-based pathfinding library

Animation

Animation & Frame-Managing Libraries

anim8 - Animation library
chiro - Convenience wrapper around Spine
skeletor - 2D skeletal animation system
Sodapop - Sprite and animation library
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

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
Lovecat - Edit your game parameters in a browser and see the changes in the running game in real time
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

Drawing

Drawing specific Libraries, that simplify the Drawing process

draft - A module for drawing complex shapes
Artal - A .PSD parsing library for LÖVE
Autobatch - Small LÖVE module to automate the use of SpriteBatches

Entity

Entity and Gameobject Managing Libraries

knife.system - Minimalist functional ECS
tiny-ecs - Entity Component System for Lua that's simple, flexible, and useful

Helper Libraries

Game specific Library bundles, that provide reuseable functions

hump - Collection of tools for developing games with LÖVE (Gamestates, Timers/Tweens, Vectors, Classes, Signals, Cameras)
knife - Collection of useful micro-modules for Lua (Class, State Machines, Bind, Chain, Coroutines, Event, Memoize, Entity, Tests, Timer)
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
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.

Input

Input & Binding Libraries

boipushy - A simple and easy to use input handler
tactile - A straightforward and flexible input library

Lighting

Lighting & Shadow Libraries

Light World - A lighting model

Math

Math specific Libraries

Cirno's Perfect Math Library - Math/intersection library designed for games
delaunay - Delaunay triangulation for convex polygons
MLib - Math and shape-intersection detection library written in Lua. It's aim is to be robust and easy to use
hump.vector - Powerful 2D vector class

Music

Music related libraries

wave - a sound manager with audio parsing and rhythm functionalities
denver - A Löve custom waveform generation library

Networking

Networking & Online-Play Libraries

Grease - Networking library intended to make networking easy for lovers (TCP, UDP, Enet)
NoobHub - OpenSource multiplayer and network messaging

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)

Physics

Collision Detection & Physics Wrappers

Bump - Collision detection library for Lua
HC - Collision detection with arbitrary polygons; allows rotation of objects

##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 3DS Homebrew
Love.js - LÖVE ported to the web using Emscripten

Serialization

Save Game & Storage Libraries

binser - Customizable Lua Serializer
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
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
shine - 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
lua-TestMore - Port of Perl's Test::More package
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.
tween.lua - Tweening/Easing/Interpolating functions for Lua inspired on jQuery's animate method

UI

User Interface Libraries

GOOi - Android-oriented GUI library
LoveFrames Fork - 0.10 Fork of a GUI library
SafeWord - An overscan detection library for LÖVE
Gspöt - a stateful GUI lib for LÖVE
SUIT - small immediate mode GUI library
CatUI - A very light-weight GUI library for the Löve2D

Utilities

Non-Game specific Library bundles, that provide reuseable functions

cargo - Asset manager
chance.lua - Library for generating random data
i18n - Internationalization library designed to help localize your game
log.lua - Library for configurable log output
love-loader - Threaded resource loading
love2d-assets-loader - Assets Loader
Luvent - Simple event-driven programming
splashy - Splash Screen Library
Talkback - Observer pattern library with two-way communication.
tick - Useful timing tweaks for LÖVE's run loop.

Tutorials

Blogs and tutorials

adonaac's - A blog by adonaac with articles about game development using LÖVE
Using Tiled Maps in LÖVE - An article about using maps created with Tiled in your LÖVE game

IDEs

Integrated Development Enviroments and text editor plugins

Atom - A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
- Löve Atom - A lövely provider for Atom's autocomplete+ package.
- 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.
- Löve Launcher - Launch LÖVE 2D for the current project without having to leave Atom.
ZeroBrane Studio - ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, code analyzer, and debugging support
LÖVE IDEA - Snippets and code completion for IntelliJ IDEA
Vim LOVE Docs - Syntax highlighting for Vim

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.

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