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Is there a way to load love in the Lua interactive interpreter, and run run, so you can basically play with love in real time? Or something? I love being able to test things rapidly in the Lua command line, was hoping to do something similar with Love?

You mean changing the main.lua and then the game would reload itself ?
If so the there are a bunch of options you can choose from, one of them is the LoveDebug library.

There is also the debug.debug() Lua function, which will pause the game and let you use stdin from your terminal to execute Lua, until you type 'cont'.

ZeroBrane Studio has support for this: http://notebook.kulchenko.com/zerobrane ... -with-love

I remember a similar topic was previously discussed on these forums. Find it here : hot reload. It contains some interesting links and resources.
But The great Murks is right, live coding is probably what you are seeking for.

Not quite what you are asking about but I like Love Fiddle to quickly test stuff:
http://lovefiddle.com

parallax7d wrote:Is there a way to load love in the Lua interactive interpreter, and run run, so you can basically play with love in real time? Or something? I love being able to test things rapidly in the Lua command line, was hoping to do something similar with Love?

Simple:
1) Tie reload of the code to some key = e.g. space or enter
2) Put this code into your Love file:
where state is the file for reload. e.g. if states=main then: require("main")

call that after some keypress, eg. in first line deletes the meta information from packages table of lua (blanks record), second line reloads the file.
i have used this approach in my state manager (one file = one state):
http://www.ambience.sk/love2d-a-state-s ... class-lua/

this will reload the code on space / enter key press (if there are any other require statements in the main.lua, then you need to re-require them as well)

And there's repler.
You could also start a lua interpreter and load love from it, but that's a more advanced topic..