The Grid engine is a 2D game engine built on LÖVE. It's inspired by Source, and subsequently, QuakeWorld. It's a small, but powerful engine that provides a significant amount of subsystems to you that you would otherwise need to write by hand for your projects or game jams.

Built by Planimeter

Tutorials and API Documentation
Tutorials and API Documentation Source

Features

Classes via lclass
Client-server model
Common convenience classes
Effortless networking
Elegant GUI system
Entity system
Pathfinding
Tiled-based region system
Threaded LuaSec support
Lua 5.1.5 base library extensions
Real-time scripting
JSON decoding and encoding via JSON4Lua
MD5 sums via md5.lua
UTF-8 aware string functions via utf8.lua

Requirements

Windows 64-bit

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x64)
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15336

Windows 32-bit

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29

Contributing

Issues are responded to in less than 24 hours. In most cases, @andrewmcwatters, or another Planimeter engineer will get back to you within the hour.

Contributors

Grid is built by Planimeter volunteer contributors, and contributors like you. Here are the lovely folks who have powered the project. GitHub doesn't show all of the contributors behind its metrics, so we extend our thanks here in alphabetical order by last name for every addition and deletion.