Open-source Love2D projects to contribute to?

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Open-source Love2D projects to contribute to?

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Hi.

So I had some fun time getting my feet wet in the world of LÖVE. Really awesome framework and Lua is also fun to code. Unfortunately however at the moment I lack inspiration what to develop and I was wondering if is there any open-source Love2D / Lua project out there I could contribute to?

I searched on GitHub but mostly I find dead projects was not updated for many years running on Love 0.x or something. Is there any active open-source game or framework or an app maybe running on a more recent version of LÖVE?

One thing I am considering is the examples browser app, could add some more examples maybe:
https://github.com/love2d-community/LOV ... e-Browser/

Is there any other LÖVE project worth considering?

Thanks.
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you may then check this:
https://github.com/Vovkiv/love-console
really interesting library, which adds in-game console
I love that concept, so when i found original library, i was exited, but it lack so much features and have problems
(https://github.com/rameshvarun/love-console)
So i forked it to fix most annoying problems like dealing with utf-8 and so on
If you interested, you can start working on it:
*add proper text editing in-to input, support for mouse?
*ability to pin values for debaging
*history scrolling
*customization and saving of console to options file
and so much other things
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Thank you for the recommendation.

That console library looks interesting.
Yes scrolling history, pin values sounds reasonable, maybe also an option to hide history, so you can continue looking at the game and maybe control it with commands you type in to the console could be an interesting use case.

Maybe I'll study how it works and see if I can add any of that.

There are so many old, broken love2d projects on GitHub, but did find one called CAVERN that I also find interesting:
https://github.com/kyleschaub/cavern

It is just a simple demo, don't know if the developer has any interest to develop it any further. But I've been working on some traditional platformer mechanics in LÖVE like moving platforms, movable objects, grabbing ledge, ladders.. could be interesting to implement those mechanics in to this game with some new weapons, enemies, levels maybe. Could even use that terminal library at some point, maybe to hack some doors and computers to progress in the game.
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