Love.js - A Direct Emscripten Port

[Tanner]

I'm very happy to announce the alpha release of a direct emscripten port of Love v0.10.0.

https://github.com/TannerRogalsky/love.js

Ever since I made Punchdrunk, I've really wanted to make this a reality. Punchdrunk was a useful toy and I learned a lot from it but performance was never very good and maintaining feature parity with Love was never going to happen.

This is different.

This isn't a new codebase like the other web ports. This is the existing, excellent codebase compiled in a different way. It should be very close to feature parity with Love v0.10.0. I have ported a number of v0.10.0 games with it already and it is exceptionally easy.

Some features don't work like threads and things that rely on threads: https://github.com/TannerRogalsky/love.js/issues
This is a game that I made for TOJAM last year that I ported. http://tannerrogalsky.com/friendshape

The readme has usage instructions to package your game for the web. It should largely just work.

Feel free to ask me any questions here or open an issue on the repo.

[alberto_lara]

Hey, I just tried to run this game but I get an error, any idea what could be wrong?

[gomez]

Dude, I love you

[Tanner]

Hey, I just tried to run this game but I get an error, any idea what could be wrong?

I'm not sure! Chrome on Windows is definitely one of the platforms I tried that on. If you get the chance, try running the debug build and send me the output. http://tannerrogalsky.com/friendshape_debug/

[adnzzzzZ]

This is awesome. And if this actually works with minimal changes to the codebase needed then this is HUGE!!!!! Good work!

[bobbyjones]

Did you change something? It errored for me as well on mobile chrome but it did not when you first showed me.

[szensk]

Oh wow! Great work Tanner.

[T-Bone]

Does not work on IE on WP8.1, but that's sort of expected I'll try it on Edge once I upgrade to Windows 10.

[undef]

Awesome! This is a huge step for Love!

[Tanner]

Does not work on IE on WP8.1, but that's sort of expected I'll try it on Edge once I upgrade to Windows 10.

Yeah.... :/ Internet Explorer is, well, it's something.

Did you change something? It errored for me as well on mobile chrome but it did not when you first showed me.

I haven't done much testing on mobile yet!