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[TheScriptan]

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[Inny]

There's a lot of extremely simple games that make a first attempt. Pong, Spacewar, Breakout (or Arkanoid), Frogger, Asteroids, Pacman.

[Davidobot]

Start out with a maze game. (Not a generator but just a maze game)
Check out the tutorials on the wiki: http://www.love2d.org/wiki/Category:Tutorials

[TheScriptan]

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[Hexenhammer]

The very first "game" is usually "Guess the number". You only need to understand the very basics of conditionals and looping for that. Oh and basic text input/output. Unfortunately, LÖVE comes without a text input function and coding one yourself is not a task for a total beginner.

Next up the ladder would be "Hangman". That should actually work nicely with LÖVE. You can just draw all letters on screen and let the player click on them to select them.

After that, something with moving entities and collision I guess e.g. these "Snake" games (you control a snake which eats stuff and has to avoid colliding with itself, walls, enemies.. the snake may also get longer every time it eats something)

You should make up your mind whether you want to make turn-based strategy games or real-time action games though, and focus your learning accordingly.

The "Snake" game is good if you want to go down the real-time action road. If you want turn-based strategy I suggest implementing a simple boardgame instead e.g. chess. Note that you don't have to invent your own chess AI. Just do a websearch, there are simple algorithms which will do the trick.

After that you are ready for your dream project I think.

[TheScriptan]

HexenHammer, that was very describing everything, what i wanted, it's sad, that Love2D forums don't have thumbs up stuff , but anyways thank you very much!

[Qcode]

We used to have Karma, but the plugin broke when the forum updated. It used to be given out sparingly though, usually to just people who helped you.

[scutheotaku]

A Space Invaders or Galaga type game would be a pretty good option, though perhaps better as a second game. Making a Space Invaders type game would help you learn things like collisions (without having to worry about icky tile collisions or anything else too complex), creating and managing multiple instances of objects/monsters and bullets, score and life systems, game states, etc..., all while still being fairly simple. Best of all, it's the type of game that's easy (and fun!) to expand on and experiment with.

HexenHammer, that was very describing everything, what i wanted, it's sad, that Love2D forums don't have thumbs up stuff , but anyways thank you very much!

Yeah, I became quite used to "liking" posts at TheDaftClub, so I'd love this sort of feature. There it doesn't affect a karma stat or ranking or anything...it's more a casual nod to the post, just like Facebook's "Like" or Google+'s "+1". Then again, that forum has a notification system (a la Facebook, though less advanced) which makes things like that more significant.

[Lafolie]

Snake is a great game to start off with. Not only does it cover many common game-related programming tasks (input, score counting, etc. perhaps even file io for a highscore table), it also helps understanding data structures and creative solutions. For example, how you make the snake grow each time you eat a block can be challenging for a beginner, but is simple enough at the same time.