One week until the start of LÖVE Jam 2026!
Be there!
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One week until the start of LÖVE Jam 2026!
Be there!
itch.io/jam/love2d-j...
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This week: Cakejamble is making an RPG pg where you fight angry tea kettles with a rolling pin and throwable eggs.
It's made in LÖVE!
This week: Jeeper tries to use a 2d physics engine for 3d physics.
gyazo.com/4918688bf48c...
This week: Mr. Moustache gets lucky.
It's made in LÖVE!
@singleshoe.bsky.social won last week's trijam with marbles! rellikiox.itch.io/for-all-the-...
This week: Spectra and the rest of BlossomDevs are making a roguelike!
It's coooomiiiiiiing! (no, not Infernal Spawn of Evil)
The 2026 LÖVE Game Jam starts March 13! Ten days! Two weekends! Make a game, with LÖVE! And love!
Hosted by @pablomayobre.bsky.social, @therealkeyslam.bsky.social, and @vornicus.bsky.social!
itch.io/jam/love2d-j...
I couldn't find them on here. They posted it on our discord! discord.gg/2AKKwCAd
This week: StupidFuckingScanlineBar is making nth Sanctuary, a Deltarune fangame!
This week: Alex Falx has made CLEANING.INC! It releases on Monday! check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/4134300/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmA4...
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: Pod racing. Also I'm told this is a software renderer, which is mad.
This week: bobylanasdf is making an RTS! Look at those tanks go.
This week: Recks is making a snake game!
It's Super Toast! He's getting jam spread on him! It gives him powers.
- 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!
More Fun Stats:
- There were at least 17 arguments over whether ECS or OOP is better!*
- People asked if LÖVE can do 3D over 21 times!
- Roblox was mentioned over 443 times, mostly because of one guy!
*+1 for the argument about to start because of this (it's OOP btw)
Fun Stats:
- People posted comments in creations-showcase instead of creations-discussion 39 times, that’s down from 51 last year! They’re learning…
- Over 11 people were confused why Vörnicus was pinging them, when will mods end his reign of terror! (NEVER)
The LÖVE Cookbook (diminiminim.github.io/love-cookboo...) also launched this year, a community resource for learning and sharing recipes for making games!
There were a bunch of very cool [libraries](github.com/love2d-commu...) made for LÖVE this year, but some standouts you should check out:
Slick (github.com/erinmaus/slick)
Shöve (github.com/Oval-Tutu/sh...)
prism (github.com/PrismRL/prism)
360 games, presented by Cool Bear
3015 creations, presented by bones guy
10,000+ discord users, presented by googly whale and that weird smiley
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)
LÖVE 12 reaches ever closer to an official release, with some cool games already using it live:
LOOTPLOT (store.steampowered.com/app/3057190/...)
Slugtrip (store.steampowered.com/app/3735720/...)
Mudborne (store.steampowered.com/app/2355150/...)
GITHUB
11 people contributed to LÖVE's source this year, with 127 commits in total!
Top contributors were Sasha (80%), MikuAuahDark (16%) and BytesHaven (3%)
- 13 pull requests were merged
- 52 issues were resolved
- Github Runners decided to shit the bed 48 times!
Some standouts from the year:
Ascent DX (store.steampowered.com/app/3384890/...)
Beatblock (store.steampowered.com/app/3045200/...)
Evil Egg (store.steampowered.com/app/3651950/...)
STEAM
A total of 34 LÖVE games were released on steam this year!* That's up from 31 releases in 2024.
The top genres were Puzzle (24%), Action (21%) and Strategy (12%)
*not including DLCs or demos
The second most important game jam, LÖVE JAM 2025 B-SIDE itch.io/jam/love2d-j..., had 20 submissions, and was won by a 3D game, CANDELA (toffee.itch.io/candela), by Toffee (AGAIN) and MothKira!
158 of these were submissions to game jams, nearly half!
The most important game jam, LÖVE JAM 2025 (itch.io/jam/love2d-j...), had **122** submissions (over DOUBLE from last year’s **50** entries!!), and was won by Train Planner (toffee.itch.io/train-planner) by Toffee.
Some that caught my eye:
britdan.itch.io/pre-meditated
jacob-makes-games.itch.io/delivery-dash
sacemakesgame.itch.io/gnoos-final-...
ITCH
A total of 326 LÖVE games were released on itch this year!* That’s up from 252 in 2024.
The top genres were Puzzle (20%), Action (16%), and Platformer (9%)
*not including games that had no genre and no screenshots
