LÖVE Game Framework
@love-framework
LÖVE is an awesome framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
This week: Toaxt defends a crouton with an infectious splash gun? I think?
This week: Serasaa and Awesome Face are both doing ray tracing with LÖVE 12's compute shaders!
This week: grob is making Florp Farming, a very goofy automation game. store.steampowered.com/app/4389860/...
this week: @sawmpl.bsky.social is throwing it (that is, Sonic) in a circle.
This week: Josh is sliding water into saplings to make trees.
This week: Victor Kaoy is making a Sega music player. Look at all the different machines it can be!
This week: Alex is making Vaporware EX, a video game about making video games!
Got so caught up in jam stuff I forgot to pick winners. Last week: Atalias Raniel is making a card game! With foil and holographic cards! It looks just as shiny as I remember. (the actual imagery is placeholder)
The 2026 LÖVE Jam theme is... COUNTER! Maybe your game is made of formica. Maybe you need 💧💧 to cast it. Maybe you just push button to make number go up. You have 10 days! Start your (game) engines! OBEY
This week: Cakejamble is making an RPG pg where you fight angry tea kettles with a rolling pin and throwable eggs.
This week: StupidFuckingScanlineBar is making nth Sanctuary, a Deltarune fangame!
This week: @gamesrightmeow.com is porting their Playdate game Suborbital Salvage to PC using LÖVE! It's coming Feb 11! store.steampowered.com/app/3687960/...
This week: bobylanasdf is making an RTS! Look at those tanks go.
- And finally, pour one out for the ban emoji! You will be missed, but now we have Super Toast Jam! Good luck to everyone in the new year with whatever you're working on!
COMMUNITY 206 new lövers joined the forums and made their first post! Over 2200 new people joined the Discord this year, bringing the server over the big 10k members mark, with over 3015 posts shown off in the showcase! (poor vorn) (don't poor vorn me I do it because I love it)
This week: Metatable Mage is making a roguelike! Look at those lights.
This week: skahd is making a deck builder about Line Go Up. Or down. Your pick. skahd.itch.io/chart-weaver
This week: @eisenfuchs.bsky.social is turning their tabletop RPG into one you can play on the computer!
This week: @toffeee.com made a fighting game with swords, grappling hooks, and capture the flag! look at those Big Hits though
This week: Archaic Virus is making a bafflingly stable dungeon generation system.
This week: NicoNii is doing ... I don't know what it is, actually, but it looks cool.
This week: the folks at Fox2d have ported basically all of Scratch to LÖVE! Just in case you have some Scratch games lying around. github.com/fox2d-engine...
