Bugfixes. Removed cross-engine support, only Love2D. Added filesystem and keyboard modules in LibLL. Remade input handling in skins. Files and broken folders are not shows in game list. Add MOBILE variable and auto-fullscreen on mobile phones. |
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games | ||
lib | ||
scr | ||
skins | ||
.gitignore | ||
license | ||
ll-min.lua | ||
luapack.lua | ||
main.lua | ||
readme.md |
Love Loader
Custom menu for selecting game from multiple for Love2D.
How it works?
Just place games into games
folder! (like this_folder/games/game/main.lua
)
Technically, this creates the loop until game wasn't selected or user wants to exit with custom event handling and redrawing.
LibLL
Love Loader from 2.0 includes backend API to simplify creating custom skins.
It have not so many functions and fields:
-
ll.games
- field for games, which have this structure:{ name = 'string', -- Friendly name for game or placeholder desc = 'string', -- Description for game or placeholder base = 'string', -- base directory used in game mounting, must end with `/` dir = 'string', -- directory name, used if no name was defined main = 'string', -- main file to execute or `main.lua` screens = {'array of', 'path to screenshots'}, scrcur = 1, --[[number]] -- current index from screenshots scrprv = 1, --[[number]] -- previous index from screenshots dat = nil, --[[any]] -- maybe platform-dependent data to reduce operations }
-
ll.mdir
- string or nil, contains full mounted directory. -
ll.mgme
- game or nil, contains mounted game. -
ll.gameNew(configuration --[[string]], fileName --[[string, not used]], base --[[string]], directory --[[string]])
Creates game object (defined above) and returns it.
-
ll.gameAdd(conf, file, base, dir)
- same asll.gameNew
with insertion intoll.games
. -
ll.addGame(fileName, fileContent)
- function for file dropping, reserved for v3.0. -
ll.mount(game)
- mounts game.Can throw an error.
Sets
ll.mdir
andll.mgme
. -
ll.umount()
- unmounts game if can.Unsets
ll.mdir
andll.mgme
. -
ll.home()
- callsllHome
-
ll.dt
- is developer tools enabled? -
__LL
- global variable of Love Loader instance when developer tools enabled. -
ll.devtools()
- enable developer tools. -
ll.fsIsAbs(file)
- is file absolute (/file)? -
ll.fsIsRel(file)
- is file relative, inverted result of ll.fsIsAbs (./file). -
ll.fsDir(path)
- get directory name (2 from /1/2/3.file). -
ll.fsFile(path)
- get file (including dividers after) (2 from /1/2/). -
ll.kbInit(direction --[[string: *, h, v, x, y]], c1 --[[number, coordinate before card for mouse (left/top)]], c2 --[[number, coordinate after card for mouse (right/bottom)]], clim --[[other coordinate limit for mouse or -1 to disable]])
- initialize keyboard module for skins. -
ll.kbGet() --[[nil, string: <, >, o, m, ^ anv v if direction is *]]
- get key pressed.
API
To reduce things to do for game developers, this loader creates some global variables to use.
You can also use it without Love Loader (or if your game can distribute without loader) by including ll-min.lua
file.
W
and H
: width and height of the screen which controls by custom love.resize function.
love.resize
and optional resize
payload: functions called when screen size was changed and on booting.
love.event.quit
: function to exit to main screen.
llHome
: function called by love.event.quit
(broken for now).
llUsed
: is Love Loader (not minimal API) used.
COLDIV
: color divider (1 or 255) to love.graphics.setColor
function.
MOBILE
: is this device runs Android or iOS?
Fill game information
To fill game information in game folder need to create info.ll
file.
Syntax is k = v
with # comments
# are there needed any comments?
name = New awesome game using Love Loader
desc = Some descripion about the game.
# main = optional main file instead of `main.lua`
pic = screen.png
pics = [ screen.png; screen2.png ] # wow arrays