PiLove — LÖVE on RaspberryPI

LÖVE is a great gaming framework! I created PiLove to make it easier to play Löve games on the Raspberry PI for everyone to share.

So what is it?

It's a Raspberry Pi bootable image. It is based on a Raspbian Jessie derivative OS.

PiLove has the latest version of Löve 0.10.0 in it, up and running. It has the minimal packages and no Xserver so it boots really fast.

How is it built?

The SDL2 library needs to be built with OpenGLES and RaspberryPI support. The RetroPie team have come up with a branch that gets this done.

For SDL 2.0.4 you need to add the option --host=arm-raspberry-linux-gnueabihf.

Then build the official Löve Linux sources on top. The source code to create the PiLove image is available here.

Ok, let's play!

Download PiLove v0.3 image, burn it to an SDCard of 2GB size or larger, and boot it up.

Pressing the Escape key should bring you to the console login prompt. Type sysop for the login name, and posys for the password.

Version History

Credits

Löve is released under the ZLIB license. The Raspberry PI is a trademark of the Raspberry PI foundation. PiLove is free and released under the MIT License.

Albert Casals - January 2016

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