This is really good. The only minor tweak I'd add is key repeating, but that wouldn't be too hard to tack on for an end user. Awesome!

I don't want to break this thread down into a LUA programming class, but I can show you what I'm thinking about for handling the card rules, and maybe that will show you another style of handling the rules mess without a lot of "if/then" statements. Functions are values in LUA, and Tables ...

AlyAsh, you are totally talking about the stuff I want to discuss in this thread. I'm talking about useful features in the framework (program skeleton), not the game itself. I've got an idea for a card game, and looking to make it virtually before I bother to design a functional table-top version. I...

I'm going to be making a card game in Love2d, so I figure if I'm doing that, might as well make a framework others might find useful as well. Any ideas on features people might think are interesting? Fire away here.