Awesome Löve

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

Contents

• 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
• Related

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.
• LÖVElyTrees - Fully featured behaviour tree implementation with tree rendering.

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.