Fennel + Love2D + Neovim

This template is based on the min-love2d-fennel repository with two differences:

• get rid of everything that is not absolutely necessary to avoid any clutter
• adapt the documentation for the usage with Neovim and Conjure (as this is what I use)

What you do need

love2d needs to be installed and available on PATH

What you do NOT need

• you don't need Lua to be installed
• you don't need LuaRocks to be installed
• you don't need Fennel to be installed

Everything Lua related is handled by love2d

Usage with Neovim and Conjure

Setup

If you have set exrc you can just open game.fnl and the game will start automatically. If not you must execute the commands in .nvim.lua manually first. I.e.

• execute :lua vim.g['conjure#filetype#fennel'] = "conjure.client.fennel.stdio" before opening the project
• execute :lua vim.g['conjure#client#fennel#stdio#command'] = "love ." before opening the project
• open game.fnl and love should start the game automatically

Reload

In order to hot reload changes made to the code use ConjureFnlEvalReload

The default keybinding is <localleader>eF

Modify

You can edit the game's state with ease from the REPL:

(set state.x 50)
(tset state :y 100)

Credits

• love2d for making game development in Lua possible
• min-love2d-fennel for the inspiration and especially for lib/stdio.fnl
• The Conjure plugin for the awesome editing experience in Neovim