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LOVE
LOVE or LÖVE is a game engine that can be used to make 2-dimensional games using the lua programming language.
Setup
On the LOVE website a guide for
Windows, MacOS and Linux can be found.
On most Linux distributions LOVE can usually be installed with the corresponding
package manager and the package love.
Usage
This section addresses the usage of LOVE.
Creating, Running and Packaging Games
On Linux a game directory should be created and the game can be created inside.
A directory has to include a file named main.lua at least.
To run the game the following command can be used to run the game.
<game-directory> is the path to the game directory.
When inside the directory already, this can just be ..
love <game-directory>
For building the game, the game directory has to be compressed first, then compiled and finally the
permissions has to be changed to make the compiled file runnable.
Afterwards the game can be compiled using the following command, where <game-directory> is the
path to the game directory and <game-name> is the name the compiled file should be called.
zip -9 -r <game-name>.love <game-directory>
cat /usr/bin/love <game-name>.love > <game-name>
chmod a+x <game-name>
Afterwards the compiled file can simply be run using the usual Shell command.
./<game-name>