Definitely points for 'cuteness'. I like sites like this that have personality.. In their FAQ: "Actually, it's more like a framework or library, but "engine" sells much better. So we lie."

Also: What is up with the umlaut in LÖVE?

We can't really say that we're making love, now can we? Plus, adding an umlaut makes anything awesome, just look at Motörhead.

Edit: simultaneous post with nuclear_eclipse... hahah.

Classic: "adding an umlaut makes anything awesome, just look at Motörhead."

Not to be confused with LOVE, a procedurally generated indie MMO game that is under development:

http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/index.html

I löve working with Lua, and have used it two of my gaming projects before to good effect when handling character AI and item/world scripting. I would be greatly interested in seeing LÖVE extended to add support for 3D gaming projects, perhaps even if as simple as adding a simplified FBX model/rendering wrapper, a là .Net/Xna.

Don't want to sound like I'm trolling already. But what advantages does this framework have over something like Pyglet?

For one thing, I guess if you prefer Lua to Python, this would interest you.

(BTW, I guess Pygame would be a closer equivalent.)

Ah I think it's more like Cocos2d then.

I've always been interested in game development, I just have much more important things on my plate at the moment and in my free time I have projects I have a bigger desire to complete.

Edit: There's many things I would like to learn, however most are much more physical things. I'd love to learn things like carpentry or metal casting, things that interest me on a fundamental level. I'm already into electrics so I suppose my interests are going back by the technological leap!

I've developed something like this myself, but it didn't get this much polish. Lua is a great asset when it comes to being able to reload your game's code as it runs.

I just ran across this yesterday. I've always been interested in creating 2D RPGs and Lua looks interesting, so this is on my list to explore.

Have used this before. Very nice project.