Hi, everyone! LÖVELINESS is a Chrome extension that lets you play LÖVE games in the browser. Neat, huh? It works using Native Client, a technology that runs native code on the web, safely. Thank goodness for that.

You probably already know that LÖVELINESS can be found in many places... a summer breeze, strolling through tall grass. But did you know you can also find it on the Chrome Web Store? After you install, you should see a little nyu in the upper-right.

When nyu looks like , the extension is enabled. LÖVE on, little nyu!

When nyu looks like , the extension is disabled. No LÖVEing for you. Your LÖVE will be downloaded instead!

Bottom line: when nyu is nice and green, clicky clicky and play. Can it be that it is all so simple?

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  lovalanche

• 

  metaballs

• 

  no.love

• 

  particles

• 

  passingclouds

• 

  sinescroller

• 

  mari0

  by stabyourself.net
• 

  In Your Face City Trains

  by Simon Larsen
• 

  Ortho Robot

  by stabyourself.net

Here's the thing. The extension isn't as smart as you or me. It doesn't know what LÖVE is. I mean, it doesn't know which files to load as .love files. So it guesses!

Here are some pointers for distributing the love:

• The extension really, truly appreciates it when you make your webserver serve .love files using a mimetype of application/x-love-game. It knows how to load those without any guessing!
• .love files on the LÖVE forums are automatically loaded correctly. Cheers!
• Guess what? .love files anywhere on the entire World Wide Web should work too! Just make sure there's no fancy redirects involved...
• Bad news. Turns out that a lot of people put their .love files inside a ZIP file. LÖVELINESS doesn't know what to do with it!

LÖVELINESS has bugs. It's true! And unimplemented features. Yep, those too.

• No writable files (well, they're writable, they just don't get saved yet)
• Keyboard works, but it doesn't send character codes yet. Most games don't seem to use them...
• SHADERS! Oh, They work. But (at least on my machine) we're really picky about operations between floats and integers. Stuff like this:
  

  Line 22: ERROR: '==' :  wrong operand types  no operation
                  '==' exists that takes a left-hand operand of type 'float' and
                  a right operand of type 'const mediump int' (or there is no
                  acceptable conversion)
                

  Usually you can fix this in the source by adding .0 to the integer.
• No fullscreen
• No mouselock

• The LÖVE development team
• slime for the OpenGL ES 2.0 port of LÖVE
• @bartbes for hosting it. :)
• Stabyourself.net for the awesome LÖVE games!
• All y'all making neato stuff on the LÖVE forums
• You for reading the credits!